I need help installing VMWare. I installed the RPM fine. I ran vmware-config.pl and it said I need a GCC compiler, so I tried to install it with the RPM Package Manager, it said I was missing krb5-lib and openssl. So I went into Synaptic and got it. I reran vmware-config.pl and now it asks "What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel?" It has a default directory of "[/usr/src/linux/include]" but when i press enter it asks again. I checked and the directory doesn't exist. I went back into the package manager and tried to install the development tools and the kernel development tools. It said I don't have krb5 and openssl again. I checked synaptic and I actually have newer versions of those two things that what it is looking for. I think that is why it can't find them. So I'm stuck. VMWare doesn't recognize my kernel and can't build a config for a new one because I can't install the developer tools becauase part of the developer tools are too new. BTW the kernel is the upgraded one, that I got from the System Update.
For now I'm just gonna boot into the old kernel and see what happens. If someone can tell me how to fix this, I'll go into the upgraded kernel. If you ever remember my old fights about linux, this is a big time one. But I won't continue, I just want help.