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I installed Kubuntu in a VMWare virtual machine. I am trying to share files between my host and guest OS, which requires to install the VMWare tool set.

When running the VMWare toolset installation it asks me to make sure that gcc, binutils, make and the kernel sources are installed.

Does anyone know what all the kernel sources entails?

Peretz
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Install the following packages via apt-get or Synaptic:

  • gcc
  • binutils
  • make
  • linux-source

The last package always contains the sources for the newest kernel. If you are running an older kernel, you should get the sources for that, e.g. linux-source-3.0.0 . If you don't know, which kernel you are running, type uname -a in a terminal.

ChrisiPK
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Install GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) (which also installs binutils and make)

# apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
# apt-get install build-essential

Install Kernel Source

# apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

After this you will be all set to install the VMWare tools.

Matthew Connolly
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