VMWare on Kali Rolling - A compatible version of gcc was not found.

[wtf]

After installing vmware on a fresh Kali Rolling install I get this message.

gcc (Debian 6.1.1-11) 6.1.1 20160802

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Solved!

It seems that you need to point to the gcc-5 binary executable.

When the vmware installation prompts that a compatible version of gcc was not found supply it with the path /usr/bin/gcc-5

First be sure to check that you actually have the gcc-5 compiler installed:
gcc-5 --version
gcc-5 (Debian 5.4.1-1) 5.4.1 20160803
Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

If not install it using apt-get:
# apt-get install gcc-5

And the installation will be successful.

[wolfelder]

When I was installing it failed until I installed the headers also 'apt-get install -y linux-headers-$(uname -r)'

You may also want to look at this thread if you have vmnet and vmmon install problems.
https://communities.vmware.com/threa...art=0&tstart=0

After I did both of these and pointed to the gccc-5 compiler the install was successful