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How do I install open-vm-tools?

Most Linux distributions already ship open-vm-tools. Unless you have special requirements, this is the easiest way to install open-vm-tools. All distributions split the package into a system and a desktop component. The latter is only useful on syatems that have a graphical UI (gnome or kde).

On Ubuntu and Debian:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop

On RHEL, CentOS and Fedora:

sudo yum install open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop

On SLE and OpenSuSE:

zypper install open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop

If your system does not have a packaged version of open-vm-tools, or if you have special requirements, you can build from source. See the steps in this FAQ about building.

Building

How can I build open-vm-tools?

These steps work on most systems:

autoreconf -i
./configure --without-kernel-modules
make
sudo make install