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I am trying to install VMWare tools on Debian Squeeze.

My error:

Before you can compile modules, you need to have the following installed... 

make
gcc
kernel headers of the running kernel

Searching for GCC...
The path "/usr/bin/gcc" is not valid path to the gcc binary.
Would you like to change it? [yes]

uname -a:

Linux debian 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Sat Sep 18 02:14:45 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

dpkg -l | grep make

ii  make                                 3.81-8                               An utility for Directing compilation.

dpkg -l | grep gcc

ii  gcc                                  4:4.4.4-2                            The GNU C compiler
ii  gcc-4.4                              4.4.4-8                              The GNU C compiler
ii  gcc-4.4-base                         4.4.4-8                              The GNU Compiler Collection (base package)
ii  libgcc1                              1:4.4.4-8                            GCC support library

whereis gcc

gcc: /usr/bin/gcc /usr/lib/gcc
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2 Answers2

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Running this command fixed the problem:

sudo aptitude install gcc-4.3 make linux-headers-`uname -r` -y
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  • @WarrenP `make` is one of the packages that needs to be installed (see edit history, revision 4), not a separate command. I've reverted your edit. – Indrek Jan 04 '13 at 15:53
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Like Guillaume said in OP's comment:

sudo aptitude install libglib2.0-0
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