I am writing these few lines because I believe that a simple guide on how to solve a small problem that occurs during the installation of vmware-tools on debian testing is a must.
You may come across a point during installation where vmware-tools tells you that the path to gcc (usr/bin/gcc) is invalid.
at this point what to do? Simple: just install what is obviously missing:
first stop the vmware-tools installation process and proceed to install gcc with this command:
# apt-get install gcc-4.3 linux-headers-$(uname -r)
after installing the right gcc, proceed to install vmware-tools again and you are done!
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