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On 1 Aug 1999, Kyle Rose wrote: > > > I've finally gotten around to checking out all the vmware hype, and when I > > go to install the sucker, I run into a problem because I'm running kernel > > 2.2.10 and not a kernel for which there are packaged modules. It crashes > > out of trying to build the drivers because it cannot locate > > linux/version.h. After thinking about it, I noticed that I've run > > into this problem when trying to compile a few things (windowmaker, rxvt). > > I've done a pretty-much-full install of RH 6.0, and all the libraries > > should be where they need to be. Where is this phantom version.h? > > Perhaps a symlink I haven't put in? Any idea on a package I may not have > > installed that I should have? Please help. > > Generally, this kind of error implies that you don't have a kernel > installed in /usr/src/linux. I'm not quite sure how RH handles > /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm, but I believe most systems > (Debian not included. =( ) have links to /usr/src/linux/include/linux > and /usr/src/linux/include/asm, respectively. Check for this on your > system, and if there's no kernel in /usr/src/linux, that's your > problem. > After reading Kyle's post I remembered running into this myself... after installing the kernel source (i.e. not the RPM, from tarball) there was a symlink missing that I had to create. It was one of the one you mentioned. Derek D. Martin | UNIX System Administrator d_martin at worldnet.att.net | dmartin at lancity.com - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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