Install VMware Tool on Ubuntu Linux

  1. login as root
  2. mount distribution iso
  3. apt-get update
  4. apt-get upgrade
  5. sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)
  6. unmount distribution iso
  7. mount VMware Tools iso
  8. sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
  9. cd /media/cdrom
  10. cp VMwareTools* /tmp
  11. cd
  12. sudo umount /media/cdrom
  13. cd /tmp
  14. tar xzvf VMwareTools*
  15. cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib
  16. sudo ./vmware-install.pl -d
  17. rm -rf /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib

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