VMware workstation 5.5 won't install on Edgy

[Paul Kaplan]

On Sunday 17 December 2006 6:54 pm, Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
> Running the installation script for this, have linux-headers-386 and
> build-essential installed. Worked perfectly on Dapper but on Edgy it
> hits a snag. I'm hoping someone would be able to suggest what exactly I
> need to do to get passed it. The following is the last few lines of
> output as the program exited...
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> /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:37:5: warning:
> "VMW_HAVE_EPOLL" is not defined
> /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:43:5: warning:
> "VMW_HAVE_EPOLL" is not defined
> In file included from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.h:20,
>                  from /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:49:
> /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/./include/compat_wait.h:60: error:
> conflicting types for ‘poll_initwait’
> include/linux/poll.h:62: error: previous declaration of ‘poll_initwait’
> was here
> /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:145: warning:
> initialization from incompatible pointer type
> /tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:149: warning:
> initialization from incompatible pointer type
> make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-10-generic'
> make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
> make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
> Unable to build the vmmon module.

Make sure you have the linux-source package for your kernel installed.  Also 
run vmware-config.pl as root (sudo).
Paul