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Old 20th October 2009, 03:45 AM
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Installing VBox guest additions on F11

getting this error message and can't get by it........Newby

VirtualBox 3.0.8 Guest Additions installation
Please install the build and header files for your current Linux kernel.
The current kernel version is 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i686.PAE
Problems were found which would prevent the Guest Additions from installing.
Please correct these problems and try again.
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Old 20th October 2009, 03:49 AM
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Hello louc:

And Welcome to the forum.

This thread has been moved to "General Support" because: it is neither a Guide nor a Solution.

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Try:
su
yum update
yum install kernel-PAE-devel kernel-headers gcc make
reboot


then try again.

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Old 21st October 2009, 02:55 AM
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That did it!! Thanks a million
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