This might be a duh moment for most Linux aficionados but for the occasional user it's priceless information to get things up and running quickly. Linux gurus just move on this is mostly for newbies.
While I'm no expert with Ubuntu or Linux, but I learned long time ago that dependencies, applications or core programming headers are very nicely packaged and available via either the Synaptic interface or apt-get. While these are convenient I recently found myself helping someone who needed VMWare Player installed on Ubuntu. We spent a few minutes trying to find the right command(s) to use for apt-get to pull down the required files and install the compile header dependencies that VMWare Player needed. A few clicks in, I found
Brandon Huchingson's Wiki page which was perfect and with the terminal command below we were able to install VMWare Player like a champ:
$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential
The key reason why VMWare (intelligently I may add) requires the native and raw code headers is to ensure compatibility across all the different Linux distributions and all of the different core Kernel versions. This just about guarantees that VMWare will purr like a kitten and take advantage of that Kernel's capabilities.
Hope someone finds this useful when they're in a pinch.
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