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Improve this answer. D 7, 9 9 gold badges 44 44 silver badges 75 75 bronze badges. Tr0n Tr0n 3 3 silver badges 3 3 bronze badges. Worked for me. My vanilla install Debian 8 kept asking me to insert the Jesse install CD-ROM, but after commenting out that line apt finally went out onto the internet and grabbed the package, — geoO.

Especially under Ubuntu You need also to install gcc sudo apt install gcc-8 — Michael Johann. JamaLindo JamaLindo 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. Found the answer. What I did was was first sudo apt-get install aptitude sudo aptitude install libglib2. The rest of the software provided by VMware Tools is designed to work independently of this feature. If you wish to have the VMCI feature, you can install the driver by running vmware-config-tools. VMware automatic kernel modules enables automatic building and installation of VMware kernel modules at boot that are not already present.

By selecting yes, you will be enabling this experimental feature. You can always disable this feature by re-running vmware-config-tools. If you wish to have the shared folders feature, you can install the driver by running vmware-config-tools.

These packages are available on your distribution's installation CD. Now, it's time to enhance it. It's very simple. This will popup an installation wizard inside the guest.

This is identical to any other Windows installation. Click Install , follow the menu and that's it. After the installation is complete, reboot. After the reboot, check the system tray. Bob's your uncle. The below guide is taken from my article Installing Linux Mint - Full tutorial. The procedure is documented in absolute detail on pages 3 and 4 of the tutorial.

It covers not only the installation of the tools, it also explains what you need BEFORE you can install the Tools, because some compilation is involved entirely automatically and what you can do AFTER the installation, namely add the VMware Tools to the startup of your session, so they start when you login.

Now, please note that although the functionality here is demonstrated using Linux Mint, it is perfectly valid for all distributions. Since Linux Mint is Debian -based, this type of file is not suitable for us instantly. Nevertheless, even if it were, we want to use the archive. First, we need to extract it. After the archive has been extracted, we need to actually install the Tools. This must be done using the command line. First, we need to open a Terminal.

The shortcut to Terminal can be easily found in the Menu , under System. Once we hit the command line, we need to navigate to the directory containing the VMware Tools files. In the relevant directory, we need to locally execute the installation script wizard.