On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Colin Kilbane wrote: > Ok I am installing vmware on a machine running RH 7.2. what version of vmware? > I have secured the > machine with bastille linux, so I can no longer log in as root at the > login prompt, I must log in as a user first. good idea, but when you su to root use su -, this simulates a login process and read roots' .bashrc > Vmware needs gcc to install > and I have tried to install the rpms as root i find it very hard to believe that gcc was not installed by default > but they do not install when > i use the rpm -i command with the rpm name. The only error was that it > needed a directory made, I made that and the error went away but it still > was not installed. Whereis just reports "gcc:" and which can not find it > in the path. What could be the problem here? Is it just a problem with > the path? try this: rpm -qa gcc or rpm -qa | grep gcc if the above does not show gcc installed try rebuilding the rpmdb before installing: rpm --rebuilddb -munir