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Install vmware client linux
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VMWare Tools Client linux
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo mkdir -p /media/cdrom
sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
cd /media/cdrom
sudo cp VM*.tar.gz /tmp
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-server build-essential
//(for desktop is "sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential")
cd /tmp
sudo umount /media/cdrom
sudo tar xzvf VM*.tar.gz
cd vmware-tools-distrib
sudo mkdir /usr/lib64
sudo ./vmware-install.pl -d
sudo reboot
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