Debian Kernel

drezard · 12-13-2008, 04:54 PM

Ive got Debian 5 Lenny and I'm trying to install vmware server. It keeps throwing errors about how the kernel was built with gcc 4.1 and Ive got gcc 4.3 installed. Ive tried compiling vmware with both anyway and compiling new kernels and I just keep getting errors.

Im wondering is there some apt-get install kernel... or a way to download a .deb file for a kernel built with gcc 4.3 that will work with Debian 5 Lenny.

Daniel

pentode · 12-13-2008, 07:10 PM

Are you getting errors or warnings? There's a difference.

bano6010 · 12-15-2008, 07:41 AM

Did you make sure to export the gcc-4.1 after you installed it?

Try:
export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.1

After that, run ./vmware-install.pl again.

Telemachos · 12-15-2008, 11:34 AM

If you installed Lenny recently, you may not have gcc-4.1 installed. In that case, install it and then do export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.1 as bano6010 says.