Installing the VMWare Tools on Rosa Linux Troubleshooting

If During Installation the VMWare Script Do Not Find the Kernel Sources Proceed to Installing the kernel-devel Package.

First you need to Find your Kernel with:

uname -rs

After There are At Least Two Different Ways for Installing the Kernel-Devel Package on a Mandriva like System:

• Finding the Rpm Source and Executing on Root Terminal:

  urpmi http://remote/Path/To/kernel-desktop-devel-xxx.rpm

• Downloading the Rpm and Installing it:

  wget -P /tmp http://remote/Path/To/kernel-desktop-devel-xxx.rpm

  cd /tmp

  rpm -ivh kernel-devel-xxx.rpm