title: installing vmware tools: not recognizing path to 3.8.0-19-generic kernel files
body: <p>So I am using Lubuntu and running in as  VM using vmplayer and I am trying to install vmware tools. After doing </p>
  
  <pre><code>./vmware-install.pl
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and doing the default settings, it is now saying </p>
  
  <pre><code>The path "" is not a valid path to the 3.8.0-19-generic kernel headers. 
  Would you like to cange it? [yes]
  
  Enter the path to the kernel header files for the 3.8.0-19-generic kernel?
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and when I did</p>
  
  <pre><code>whereis 3.8.0-19-generic kernel
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>it says</p>
  
  <pre><code>3.8:
  kernel: /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-30/kernel /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-19/kernel  /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-19-generic/kernel /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-30-generic-kernel
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried all four of them and none of the paths worked. It still said that the path is not a valid path to the 3.8.0-19-generic/kernel.</p>
  
  <p>Note that before when I did</p>
  
  <pre><code>whereis 3.8.0-generic kernel
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>it only gave me the '-19' kernels, but then I did</p>
  
  <pre><code>sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
  sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>to see if it would fix anything but it didn't. It added the '-30' kernels but that didn't seem to fix the problems. Any ideas on what's wrong?</p>