building vmmon

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Ben Rosengart wrote:

> Hello Hatters,
>   I am trying to install VMware-workstation-4.5.1-7568 on Fedora
> Core 1.  The install procedure wants to build the vmmon module,
> for which it wants kernel source.  I have downloaded
> kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.src.rpm and installed it (with "rpm -i
> kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.src.rpm") but that does not install
> anything in /usr/src/linux, where the VMware install wants to find
> it.
>
> I'm new to Red Hat and rpm, so I'm very much at sea.  If anyone can
> help me get vmmon built, I would be greatly appreciative.  Thanks in
> advance.

(1) You want the kernel-source RPM, not the kernel SRPM.
(2) Update your kernel and get the matching kernel-source RPM.

$ rpm -q kernel kernel-source
kernel-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl
kernel-source-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl


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