Just trying to install vmware-tools. It wants the location of the kernel-headers. The package was installed, but I have no idea where, and can't find where it's located via google. Any help would be much appreciated! I'm sure there's away to find it using yum but I read the man to no avail.

hmmm... I just did

sudo rpm -ql kernel-headers

which indicated that all the header files are in /usr/include/ and /usr/include/linux. I tried both, but they were rejected by the installer saying they were invalid, and again asked me
"What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel?"

EDIT: p.s. in case anyone was wondering, I'm following the vmware guide. In my Google searches I read that Fedora's kernel-headers location is not the normal location, but no where can I find where that location is. I assume the above locations were rejected because they're not the same location as the ones which the kernel uses.

p.p.s: Could a mod please move this to the Linux Distros/Fedora section? Hindsight is 20/20...

The package to install is "kernel-devel", once done you'll find header under "/usr/src/kernels/2.6.33.8-149.fc13.x86_64/include" directory

Indeed, kernel-devel is installed and the directory /usr/src/kernels/2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686/include was rejected as being invalid, though there are tons of header files in that and its subdirectories.

EDIT: I really have no idea what other directory it could be other than those I've chosen. After doing a find and dumping the results to a list file, there are tons of other locations of header files, but they don't really seem to be in a place that the kernel would be using them (they are for other packages, for instance). I'm totally at a loss here. I think I'll contact vmware and post here if any of their help is successful.

What is error output exactly?
is the "uname -r" output OK?

did you figure out this problem yet? what header is it looking for?

Sorry for the long absence. I never did find a solution to the problem, I just moved on without installing VMware Tools. I'll probably try again over the summer which is when I'll have time to work on this particular project again. When I do I'll post my results here.

I had this problem too and got it fixed, I hope this helps you guys too.

Please check whether /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build is a broken link. If it is, then you do not have installed the kernel sources of the running kernel.

I installed kernel-devel, gcc and make as suggested by other howtos with no results, then noticed that I was actually running a PAE kernel. It worked like a charm after installing kernel-PAE-devel.

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