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**oshunluvr** · Mar 10, 2012, 08:18 AM

I could be wrong here but apt-cache only looks at what cached on your system. You'd have to add the file (download) to your cache.

Try;

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.2.0-17-generic-pae

According to Ubuntu, it's in the main repo and the current version is 3.2.0-17.27

**oshunluvr** · Mar 10, 2012, 08:22 AM

Originally posted by Krzysieq View Post

Ahead of the questions of type "what the heck do you need VMPlayer for?", I'm deeply ashamed to admit it's to install itunes

I can't seem to connect my iphone to kubuntu, even as a simple external drive, so I figured I'll roll out a cannon to shoot pigeons and install a VMWare with WinXP and perhaps it will be useful for something else than just itunes.

Oh, and in regards to this comment - with very few exceptions you likely won't get too many comments in this direction. This forum doesn't have a lot of that.

Now, why the heck you would buy an iPhone is a totally different matter...

**dibl** · Mar 10, 2012, 09:09 AM

You also need the build-essential package to support VMware Player when it builds its kernel modules. So, do this:

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`

Just paste that into your terminal window and you should be good to go.

**SecretCode** · Mar 10, 2012, 09:20 AM

I thought it was sufficient to install linux-headers-generic and via dependencies that would pull in the current headers for your build (and keep them updated).

**Krzysieq** · Mar 10, 2012, 01:46 PM

Originally posted by oshunluvr View Post

Now, why the heck you would buy an iPhone is a totally different matter...

I ask myself this very question eversince I've got it

Nice as it is with respect to it's look&feel, software-wise it's quite rubbish. That said, I'm keeping it for now, and I'd like to be able to get the pictures I make out of it. But this is beyond the scope of this thread, or - as You said - beyond the scope of this forum.

Originally posted by dibl View Post

You also need the build-essential package to support VMware Player when it builds its kernel modules. So, do this:

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`

Just paste that into your terminal window and you should be good to go.

Code:

ania@Ptysiaki:~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
[sudo] password for ania:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-3.2.0-17-generic-pae
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-headers-3.2.0-17-generic-pae'

Could it be that the repository doesn't contain that package? I've done apt-get update a couple of hours ago, so I figured there's little sense redoing it right now.

**oshunluvr** · Mar 10, 2012, 01:59 PM

Is the .18 kernel available to you? I searched the 32bit main repo and .17 was there but now it shows as being deleted. The .18 or .16 kernels are still available so you'll have to change to one of those.

Out of curiosity, have you tried

http://everydaylht.com/howtos/deskto...ouch-on-linux/

**Krzysieq** · Mar 10, 2012, 04:16 PM

I switched to .18, now I have these packages:

Code:

ii  libselinux1                            2.1.0-4.1ubuntu1                         SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  libv4l-0                               0.8.6-1ubuntu1                           Collection of video4linux support libraries
ii  libv4lconvert0                         0.8.6-1ubuntu1                           Video4linux frame format conversion library
ii  linux-firmware                         1.71                                     Firmware for Linux kernel drivers
ii  linux-headers-3.2.0-18                 3.2.0-18.28                              Header files related to Linux kernel version 3.2.0
ii  linux-headers-3.2.0-18-generic-pae     3.2.0-18.28                              Linux kernel headers for version 3.2.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-image-3.2.0-18-generic-pae       3.2.0-18.28                              Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii  linux-libc-dev                         3.2.0-18.28                              Linux Kernel Headers for development
ii  linux-sound-base                       1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu1                     base package for ALSA and OSS sound systems
ii  pptp-linux                             1.7.2-6                                  Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) Client
ii  syslinux                               2:4.05+dfsg-2                            collection of boot loaders
ii  syslinux-common                        2:4.05+dfsg-2                            collection of boot loaders (common files)
ii  util-linux                             2.20.1-1ubuntu2                          Miscellaneous system utilities

However, the VMPlayer still won't start. It fails to compile some stuff related to networking. I suppose it'll have to wait until the release, in the meantime I might give Your other idea a shot. But I read that it's a gnome thingy, isn't it?

**SteveRiley** · Mar 10, 2012, 04:35 PM

Originally posted by Krzysieq View Post

However, the VMPlayer still won't start. It fails to compile some stuff related to networking. I suppose it'll have to wait until the release, in the meantime I might give Your other idea a shot. But I read that it's a gnome thingy, isn't it?

There are some known work-arounds, but which one to use depends on which module isn't compiling. Would you let us know which one is failing? Is it, possibly, vmnet?

**Krzysieq** · Mar 11, 2012, 08:05 AM

I would guess so, but can't be sure. Here's the screenshot:

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In the logs there's nothing of interest however

**sithlord48** · Mar 11, 2012, 09:09 AM

perhaps maybe you can do what you need using virtualbox instead of VMware?

**SteveRiley** · Mar 11, 2012, 08:12 PM

There's a known bug with VMware Workstation and Player with Linux kernels 3.2 and 3.3. Here's a patch that will fix the problem.

**Fintan** · Mar 12, 2012, 02:10 AM

Just to expand on this. I got the patch from here:
http://weltall.heliohost.org/wordpre...l-3-2-and-3-3/

Downloaded the first attachment after "attached files" and extacted the tar into ~/downloads (~being /home).

The patch didn't work at first so I had to do it manually (see post 6 on link above)

Then I opened /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source in kdesudo dolphin and extracted vmnet.tar. This will give a folder: vmnet-only. Open this, open the terminal in dolphin (view->sidebar? (mine is in german) ) then copy the two files you extracted in ~/Downloads/vmware802fixlinux320/ and copy them over to the /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet-only/ now run the patch:

Code:

patch -p1 < vmware3.2.0.patch

You should get an output like this:

patching file vmnet-only/filter.c
patching file vmnet-only/netif.c
patching file vmnet-only/userif.c

Now retar /vment-only.
If you do this in dolphin you will get a folder called vmnet-only.tar.gz.
Rename this to vmnet.tar and you are set.

Now start vmware and let it compile.
This worked fine on kernel 3.2.0.17 On Kubuntu 11.10 KDE 4.8.1

Hope this is helpful

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