How to install VMWare tools

[codewrangler1]

Install WMWare

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

OR
This method doesn't seem to work...

sudo apt install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)
sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
cp /mnt/VMwareTools-*.tar.gz /tmp/
cd /tmp
tar xzf VMwareTools-*.tar.gz
cd vmware-tools-distrib
sudo ./vmware-install.pl   

Reboot computer