VMware Server install error (Kernel Headers)

[joelee]

Trying to install VMware Server on debian sarge per how-to guide:
http://www.howtoforge.com/debian_sarge_vmware_server_howto

Running into this error after running command:
# apt-get install kernel-headers-`uname -r` libx11-6 libx11-dev x-window-system-core x-window-system xspecs libxtst6 xlibs-dev
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package kernel-headers-2.6.20

I doing this install after a succesful upgrade of linux kernel 2.6.8-2 to 2.6.20. Following how-to link:
http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21

When I check the debian site for package kernel-headers it appear that it only shows kernel-headers version for up to kernel-headers-2.6.8...

Did some google search on this and it seems quite a few people run into this problem. Any comments/help would be appreciated!

Joe

[martinfst]

You have installed a custom kernel and thus you cannot use the debian kernel headers. You need to get the header files from kernel.org for the kernel you installed. A quick scan of kernel.org did not reveal the headers for me though :confused:

Mixing a custom kernel with custom headers on a standard Debian distro might turn out to be less successfull combination :(