1. First Mount the ISO (cd-drive) containing the the VMware tools files mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom 2. Second copy the file cp /media/cdrom/* /tmp 3. Unzip the files tar -xzf vm...tar.gz 4. Run the VMware perl script and follow the prompts 5. If you run into issue such as missing linux headers just run the following command to install them: $sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)