Packages You Gotta Install When Running Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake As A VMware Guest (a newbie How-To, and a Why-To) When running any VMware guest, it goes without saying that you want to have VMware tools installed.
In the case of Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake, here are some packages that will make VMware tools much happier:

• build-essential
• linux-headers (for your kernel version)

You can install these packages via command-line:

# sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`

(you will be asked for your password)
Can I break it down for you?

1. sudo: Tells Ubuntu Linux you temporarily want root powers. These are needed to install this software)
2. apt-get: This is a software management tool. It tells Ubuntu to go out and grab some software that's not already installed.
3. install: an argument to apt-get. I think you can guess what it does.
4. build-essential: This a package name. This package happens to include to make, gcc (a compiler), and some other stuff.
5. linux-headers: This is also a package name. This package contains kernel header files that can provide helpful information to other programs in the future. In this case, VMware will find them handy.
6. uname -r: Go ahead and run it alone like that. It prints the kernel release of the version of Linux you're using. By combining it with linux-headers above, we were just adding the kernel release to the name of linux-headers, which were needed to specify which of the many linux-headers packages out there.

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