installing vmware-tools in Ubuntu-6.06?

[Tez]

Mike Leone wrote:
> I have Ubuntu 6.06 LTS installed as a VMware guest on my VMware server. And
> I'm trying to install the VMware tools. They give you an RPM or a gzipped
> source. So I unzipped the source, and ran the perl script. It said it
> couldn't recognize my kernel or distribution (even though I saw it unpack
> files with ubuntu in the name; I presume my kernel is a slightly later
> version of what they expect). The script offers to manually build the
> modules (kernel modules, from the look of it). So I download the kernel
> sources for it to find. Then it complains that it can't find the version.h
> file in the kernel source, which usually means that I haven't built the
> kernel myself.
>
> Correct; I haven't. And I don't want to, if I don't have to.
>
> So my question - has anyone gotten the vmware-tools to install in Ubuntu
> 6.06 LTS? If so, what did you have to do? 
>
> These are customized mouse and other drivers, which make response times much
> quicker in the VMware session. You can run without them, but it's not
> recommended.
>
>
>   
All you need to build the modules is the linux-headers package for you 
kernel,
you can just run this from a console/terminal:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
you can also install the linux-headers mata-package for your 
architecture by:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r|awk -F- '{print $3}')
that way you will always have the version for your kernel installed.

Tez