Getting VMware Tools Installed Fedora 8

[motsteve]

I downloaded the .iso file for Fedora 8 and put it on DVD. I installed it on VMware (Fusion) and Fedora looks good and seems to work fine. I then tried to install VMware tools and did the su things with the tar.gz file and it gave me grief because g++ wasn't installed. I got out of su and went to the appliance manager and installed g++ and tried again. It got almost all the way to completion and then the script bitched that the header files didn't seem to match the kernel that I had installed. Am I missing a dependency file somewhere?. I got out of the Konsole as su and went back to using Fedora as normal without the VMware tools (what a bitch without move capability to the other systems, etc).:eek:

[tillere]

Try using the VMtools RPM package for Fedora. I was having the same problem (after successfully using the tar.gz pkg on debian). You can either double-click on the package or use the command line for Fedora.

[motsteve]

I tried to install the rpm package and it looked like it worked, but it didn't. I'm still using Fusion 1.2 and have not switched over to 2.0. I know there is a way to port over rpm's to Fedora, but I'm a newbie and don't have the knack yet. I'm working on it, though. Thanks for the suggestion.