installing vmware tools: location of GCC binary? [closed]

Answer 1

to avoid the problem with CDROM: sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

find your cdrom and comment it with #

save the changes: "cntrl + o", than exit the file: "cntrl + x"

and try to install again

Answer 2

Install prerequisites VMware Tools for LinuxOS:

If you have RHEL/CentOS:

yum install perl gcc make kernel-headers kernel-devel -y

If you have Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt-get -y install linux-headers-server build-essential

• build-essential, also install: dpkg-dev, g++, gcc, lib6-dev, libc-dev, make

Extracted from: http://www.sysadmit.com/2016/01/vmware-tools-linux-instalar-requisitos.html

Answer 3

First execute this

sudo apt-get install gcc binutils make linux-source

Then run again

/usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl

This is all you need to do. Now your system has the gcc make and the linux kernel sources.

Answer 4

sudo apt-get install build-essential is enough to get it working.

Answer 5

Entering: /usr/bin/gcc worked for me.

Answer 6

Found the answer. What I did was was first

sudo apt-get install aptitude
sudo aptitude install libglib2.0-0
sudo aptitude install gcc-4.7 make linux-headers-`uname -r` -y

and tried it but it didn't work so I continued and did

sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install gcc-4.7 linux-headers-`uname -r`

after doing these two steps and trying again, it worked.