installing vmware tools location of GCC binary

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okay so I am trying to isntall VMware tools from the command line with the tar installer using these instructions  http   www vmware com support ws5 doc ws newguest tools linux html wp1118025  I am installing vmware tools on lubuntu which I have running as a virtual machine using vmplayer  After step 5  when responding the configuration questions on the screen  it said   the installatinon of vmware tools 9 2 3 build-1031360 for linux completed sucessfully   you can devide to  remove this software form your system at any time by invoking the following command    usr bin vmware-uninstall-tools pl   before running vmware tools for the first time  you need to configure it by invoking  the following command   usr bin vmware-config-tools pl   Do you want this program to invoke the command for  you now   yes    I pressed enter and accepted the default  yes  value and now it says  Before you can compile modules  you need to have the following installed    make gcc kernel headers of the running kernel  Searching for GCC    the path    is not valid path to the gcc binary   Would you like to change it   yes   What is the location of the gcc program on your machine    I did  locate gcc   and found that there is a folder called  usr lib gcc  so I tried to put that in as the location but it says that the path   usr lib gcc  is not valid path to the gcc library  How do I find out where the gcc binary is on my machine is

User · Accepted Answer

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

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

Entering       usr bin gcc     worked for me

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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

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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

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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

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