Debian installation Vmwaretools

After installing the Debian 7.8 x64 system with a VMware virtual machine, several minor problems are encountered in installing Vmware-tools

First open the terminal interface and switch to the root account via Su

1. Resolve installation Vmware-tools The path "is not valid path to the GCC binary issue

Run

Apt-get Install Build-essential

The build-essential contains a number of libraries and compilers such as G++,gcc,make. GCC and make are said to be necessary to install VMware tools.

2. Resolve installation Vmware-tools The path "is not a valid path to the 3.2.0-4-AMD64 kernel headers problem

This means that you cannot find the path to the kernel headers header file and need to enter it manually.

The solution to this problem is to install kernel headers

You can install kernel headers by entering the following instructions in the terminal separately.

Apt-get Update//This step can also be omitted.
Apt-get Install linux-headers-$ (uname-r)

Download the kernel header file that corresponds to the current Linux kernel version,

where $ (uname-r) is the writing of the Linux script, $ denotes the value within the application (), and Uname-r gets the version of the current Linux kernel.

After installing the above content, reinstall Vmware-tools can be completed normally.

Debian installation Vmwaretools