How to install Vmware-Tools on Debian Linux

February 4, 2010 Cody Linux

Ensure you grab the latest updates before you begin. If you update the kernel after installing Vmware-Tools you will need to re-run the vmware-tools.pl script.

For debian the following command can be run to start the update and upgrade process.

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

Mount the physical cd-rom device to our /media/cdrom folder so we can access the contents of the cd.

mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

Now we extract the file from the Vmware-tools archieve. The following command will extract the archieve located at /media/cdrom/ to the folder /opt/ in one command.

tar -C /opt/ -zxvf /media/cdrom/VMwareTools-4.0.0-208167.tar.gz

Now to install the Vmware-Tools

./opt/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl