Ubuntu – Installing VMware Player

14.04vmware-player

I installed VMware Player-4.0.6-1035888.x86_64 on my x64 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, but when I run it I get this error message:

C header files matching your running kernel were not found. Refer to your distribution's documentation for installation instructions.

Now, I've run this beforehand:

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)

and the folder named linux-headers-3.13.0-24-generic exists already in /usr/src

Any solutions?

Thanks in advance!

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Normally this answer above worked, but how about for situation where the kernel gets upgraded?

I upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (lubuntu) and VMWare was requiring a fresh compile. when it got to "vnet" part, it failed and left me with a non working VM. Ugh!

I removed VMWare (VMware-Player-6.0.1.xxxx) and installed VMware-Player-6.0.2. The install went smoothly, no questions asked. Back in business.

Gist is: remove VMWare, install it again.

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Ubuntu – Multiple Problems while installing VMware Player with Kernel Headers

The installed kernel was obsolete. Its headers is not any more in the repository. So the best thing to do is to update the kernel to last version in the repository.

To enable auto update for the kernel, install linux-generic which is a meta package to keep current version of the kernel & its headers:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install linux-generic

For some reason this meta wasn't installed while upgrade for you. If it didn't work, then use Synaptic to install its headers or upgrade/install to the last kernel release (search for "linux").

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