Installing VMware Tools on Debian Linux

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  1. login as root
  2. mount distribution iso
  3. apt-get update
  4. apt-get install gcc make linux-headers-$(uname -r) open-vm-tools
  5. unmount distribution iso
  6. mount VMware Tools iso
  7. mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
  8. tar xzf /mnt/VMwareTools*
  9. cd vmware-tools-distrib
  10. ./vmware-install.pl -d
  11. rm -rf vmware-tools-distrib

*open-vm-tools can be removed from step 4 if manual installation is wanted for step 10.

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