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Installing VMWare tools Ubunutu Server 12.04
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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
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
## Credit to http://ghosttx.com/2012/03/how-to-install-vmware-tools-v4-on-ubuntu-11-10-server/
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