Hi all:
I’ve followed the install instructions listed in the sticky of this forum and everything goes well until I get to the “vmware-modconfig --console --install-all” part.
The response I get is “Failed to setup build environment.” Any help as to what my problems are would be appreciated.
Hello again:
Upon further reading of various threads, I came across the fact that “kernel-desktop-devel” had to be installed.
It** wasn’t**, so I installed it and tried “vmware-modconfig --console --install-all” again with much greater success.
Problem solved.
Thanks
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:26:02 +0000, xenrobia wrote:
> Hi all:
> I’ve followed the install instructions listed in the sticky of this
> forum and everything goes well until I get to the “vmware-modconfig
> --console --install-all” part.
> The response I get is “Failed to setup build environment.” Any help as
> to what my problems are would be appreciated.
Failing to set up the build environment means that you don’t have
software development tools installed.
If you post the exact output you get (in code tags, please), that may
help someone diagnose what’s going wrong here.
Jim
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
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It also would be useful if you told us what release of openSUSE you’re
using so we don’t have to guess. I don’t know about anyone else, but my
crystal ball is in the shop. 
Jim
–
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Well it’s 12.3, naturally. Sorry about being so vague, I’ll try to be a little more informative with any future problems.:shame:
Thanks.
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 17:16:05 +0000, xenrobia wrote:
> hendersj;2575390 Wrote:
>> It also would be useful if you told us what release of openSUSE
>> you’re using so we don’t have to guess. I don’t know about anyone
>> else, but my crystal ball is in the shop.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> –
>> Jim Henderson openSUSE Forums Administrator Forum Use Terms &
>> Conditions at ‘openSUSE Forums FAQ’ (http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C)
>
> Well it’s 12.3, naturally. Sorry about being so vague, I’ll try to be a
> little more informative with any future problems.:shame:
Not a problem, but for you it being 12.3 may be natural - myself, I’ve
got my systems mostly on 12.2 still - better to ask than assume.
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
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Try this if you already have these zypper will tell you, this is everything you’ll need for vmware:
zypper in cmake kernel-source kernel-devel kernel-syms gcc gcc-c++ linux-glibc-devel binutils gcc47 libgcc47 libgcc47-32bit libgcj47 libvmtools0 open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-gui vmware-guest-kmp-desktop
then do this using your username of course!
robbie@dapc:~> sh /home/robbie/Downloads/VMware-Player-5.0.2-1031769.x86_64.bundle
Extracting VMware Installer...done.
robbie@dapc:~> su
Password:
dapc:/home/robbie # sh /home/robbie/Downloads/VMware-Player-5.0.2-1031769.x86_64.bundle
Extracting VMware Installer...done.
dapc:/home/robbie #
If all has gone well this’ll get you VMwareplayer.
I made a fresh installation of openSUSE 12.3 on this Friday. And VMware Player also.
After updating I installed packages kernel-source, gcc, make with all their dependencies.
Then
su
sh VMware-Player-5.0.2-1031769.x86_64.bundle
And that was all in my case.