Yrurtj

I'm trying to run vmware on my kali linux 2.0 box, because I want a lab to practice my skills on, but vmware won't launch it's giving my an error message saying "C header files matching your running kernel were not found", I ran a command to fix it but then the command spit out some error message

  root@kali:~# sudo apt-get install -y linux-headers-$(uname -r)

  Reading package lists... Done

  Building dependency tree       

  Reading state information... Done

  E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-4.3.0-kali1-amd64

  E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'linux-headers-4.3.0-kali1-amd64'

  E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-headers-4.3.0-kali1-amd64'

  root@kali:~# 

Try apt-cache search linux-headers or install Synaptic. See How do I search for available packages from the command-line?. Be aware that if no headers exist for whatever uname -r returns, you will need to upgrade, or downgrade, your kernel until you have a matching set.

I believe I have a solution for you. Recently I have installed Kali Linux on my machine and I noticed a similar issue. Executing the following sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) will only fetch form the repositories in your sources.list file. Now in my case the repositories that I have available are outdated therefore I resulted to installing the Linux Headers manually by downloading the packages then using dpkg. Here is how I accomplished that:

If your system is 32 bit:

1) Wget the following files

 wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.3.4-wily/linux-headers-4.3.4-040304_4.3.4-040304.201601230132_all.deb

 wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.3.4-wily/linux-headers-4.3.4-040304-generic_4.3.4-040304.201601230132_i386.deb

 wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.3.4-wily/linux-image-4.3.4-040304-generic_4.3.4-040304.201601230132_i386.deb

2) Install the following packages by issuing:

sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-4.3.4*.deb linux-image-4.3.4*.deb

3) Reboot your system:

sudo reboot

If your system is 64 bit:

1) Wget the following files

wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.3.4-wily/linux-headers-4.3.4-040304_4.3.4-040304.201601230132_all.deb

wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.3.4-wily/linux-headers-4.3.4-040304-generic_4.3.4-040304.201601230132_amd64.deb

wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.3.4-wily/linux-image-4.3.4-040304-generic_4.3.4-040304.201601230132_amd64.deb

2) Install the following packages by issuing:

sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-4.3.4*.deb linux-image-4.3.4*.deb

3) Reboot your system:

sudo reboot

If you wish to uninstall the header files issue the following:

sudo apt-get remove 'linux-headers-4.3.4*' 'linux-image-4.3.4*'