How to install VMWare Tools on OEL 5.7

Hi,
I am not able to install VMWare tools on OEL 5.7
Oracle Linux Release 5 Update 7 on 32 bit env.
How shoould we proceed?
thanks!
Srinivas

Hi ,
Dd you fix it .... I am facing the same issue with OEL 5.7 and I did install headers and devel for 2.6.32-200.13.1 but the issue still exists
[root@rac1 bin]# rpm -qa|grep kernel
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.32-200.13.1.el5uek
kernel-uek-2.6.32-200.13.1.el5uek
kernel-uek-headers-2.6.32-200.13.1.el5uek
kernel-2.6.18-274.el5
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.32-200.13.1.el5uek
[root@rac1 bin]# uname -r
2.6.32-200.13.1.el5uek
hitting the error
Stopping VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
Guest operating system daemon: [ OK ]
None of the pre-built vmmemctl modules for VMware Tools is suitable for your
running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmemctl module
for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)?
[no]
The memory manager driver (vmmemctl module) is used by VMware host software to
efficiently reclaim memory from a virtual machine.
If the driver is not available, VMware host software may instead need to swap
guest memory to disk, which may reduce performance.
The rest of the software provided by VMware Tools is designed to work
independently of this feature.
If you want the memory management feature, you can install the driver by
running vmware-config-tools.pl again after making sure that gcc, binutils, make
and the kernel sources for your running kernel are installed on your machine.
These packages are available on your distribution's installation CD.
[ Press Enter key to continue ]
Please help me ....

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