Multiple Problems while installing VMware Player with Kernel Headers

Question

I'd like to generate some reports from my python webapp - I set it up locally via PyPandoc.

However, I can't find PyPandoc on the list of available libraries. I tried vendoring it into my libs folder and using pypandoc's pypandoc.pandoc_download to download the pandoc binary, but that only works for 64-bit processors apparently.

Is there a way to request 64-bit environment? Or some way to get pandoc installed on the machine?

Solution

The installed kernel was obsolete. Its headers is not any more in the repository. So the best thing to do is to update the kernel to last version in the repository.

To enable auto update for the kernel, install linux-generic which is a meta package to keep current version of the kernel & its headers:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install linux-generic

For some reason this meta wasn't installed while upgrade for you. If it didn't work, then use Synaptic to install its headers or upgrade/install to the last kernel release (search for "linux").

Comments

[user.dz]

Similar case askubuntu.com/questions/405633/…

[jobin]

@Sneetsher: Since this question is specifically for VMware Player, could you please adapt the answer and cover this specific question?

[Admin]

Last posting solved my issue too. was 3.11 kernel with headers missing and unavailable. Now uname -a reports 3.13 and VM Workstation works fine. Thank you for your replies and Answers.