Installing VMware Tools from the Command Line with the RPM Installer on Linux

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1- Power-On the virtual machine.
2- From toolbar click VM -- >Install VMware Tools
3- Right click on desktop and Open Terminal Window.
4- Isuue the following command to mount the CD-Rom
$ mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
Now there should be a CD-Rom Icon on desktop.
Note: If you have a previous installation, delete the previous vmware-distrib directory before installing. The default location of this directory is
/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib.
5- Issue the following command
$ cd /mnt/cdrom
$ rpm –Uhv VMwareTools-5.0.0-<xxxx>.i386.rpm
$ vmware-config-tools.pl
Now VMware tool should start installation.
6- Now at the end, unmount the CD-Rom
$ umount /dev/cdrom
 
Thats It..!!