Okay, fancy title for a thread where I ask dumb questions and Jake, Jeff and Brett laugh, and tell me the answers

Okay. Just fixed my busted Samba package, because it was stopping me from updating some other schtuff. An update was done (I think it was to do with the linux-generic core update?) and now my VM Ware has stopped working I go to open VM Ware and it just closes itself..

Help Plzkthnkz
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there was a kernel update yesterday, sounds like VMware haven't pushed their new kernel module to you yet.
Probably easiest to download latest version from them and install again.
(I think just running the ./install.py script again will probably do the job in the mean time)
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I was just trying the installation again. Currently faced with something that doesn't normally happen. It was looking for a vmmon, but couldn't find one and said there wasn't a suitable GCC compiler installed, so I'm just installing the latest GCC 4.0 into Ubuntu and that might solve the problem.
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Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel.

None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Workstation is suitable for your
running kernel.  Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for
your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes]

Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]

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apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
your computer is now set for building stuff

If you are using the generic kernel then use
apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic

that should keep you set in future
Generally vmware has their modules updated pretty quick though, are you using the "authentic" ubuntu mirror as well as a local one (i use optus ~150kb/s)

If it's still being stupid, the path to include can be found in /lib/modules/<<module release number>>/build/include
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I'm using au.archive.ubuntu.com for most of my mirrors
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so working yet?
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Just been out putting my car back together... So I don't know another 30mins and I'll try to sorta computers out again...
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au.archive.ubuntu.com keeps timing out.... What's the details on optus Jake?
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deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy main universe multiverse

then
apt-get update
then those
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I'm running 6.06 dapper... will that make a difference?

EDIT:

tried it any way... the apt-get update results in the following....

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root@Ubuntu:/home/knightrous# apt-get update Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports Release.gpg [191B]
Get:3 http://archive.canonical.com dapper-commercial Release.gpg [191B]
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release.gpg [191B]
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release
Hit http://archive.canonical.com dapper-commercial Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports Release
Hit http://archive.canonical.com dapper-commercial/main Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/universe Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/universe Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/multiverse Sources
Err http://packages.freecontrib.org dapper Release.gpg
  Could not connect to packages.freecontrib.org:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed o ut
Err http://au.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg
  Could not connect to au.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://au.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release.gpg
  Could not connect to au.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Err http://au.archive.ubuntu.com edgy Release.gpg
  Could not connect to au.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Fetched 4B in 6m0s (0B/s)
Failed to fetch http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/Release.gpg  Co uld not connect to au.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Failed to fetch http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-updates/Release .gpg  Could not connect to au.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Failed to fetch http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf/dists/dapper/Release. gpg  Could not connect to packages.freecontrib.org:80 (1.0.0.0), connection time d out
Failed to fetch http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/edgy/Release.gpg  Coul d not connect to au.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
Reading package lists... Done
W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used  instead.

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http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/Release.gpg works fine, therefore its your internet thats got problems . . . I dont use apt so I dont really know, but is the 1.0.0.0 part supposed to be the IP address those names are resolving to ? If thats the case, your DNS is screwed somehow, try changing DNS servers.
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Links for when I get home:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=302322&highlight=vmware - VM Ware issue

http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Latest_Nvidia_Dapper - Nvidia drivers for Planeshift.

http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Main_Page - Bookmark at home.
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installed ubuntu on my comp today. I Love it some much! mone question though. can it still run normal windows programs like games or stuff or do they not work. I can't be bothered trying for myself. And if they don't i spose there's not way of fixing it so they work is there?
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To use your windows programs in Ubuntu, you'll need WINE. Games... Well, if you have windows games that are also Linux compatible, you should be good, otherwise it's off to play with Cedega.
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