I'm trying to install VMWare Player on ubuntu 14.04 and I'm running into problems: headers are missing.
Similar question is here, checked answers here, but nothing works.
I tried to apply patch as well as described here, but it didn't work as well. I'm about to install the latest version 6.03.
Does anyone know how this could be solved?
After many install and uninstall, i have decided to install virtualbox and I have experienced similar issue.
Finally - with all sort of combinations found on the web I followed following steps:
added virtualbox from original site
sudo apt-get remove dkms build-essential linux-headers-*
sudo apt-get install dkms build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)
sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-4.3 --purge
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.3
this worked, except that the extension pack was missing, so I did this: wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.3.10/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.3.10-93012.vbox-extpack
sudo adduser admin vboxusers
rebooted the system
then clicked on the extpack which was in home folder
all worked fine.
For being sure, I have rebooted the system again
still all fine
and installed vmare as well without any issues.
Hope this will help to someone.
The key was to remove and re-install the headers.
