How to install vmware tools?

I encountered this problem when upgrading from 12.10 to 13.04. No matter what I did, the VMware Tools installer couldn't seem to find the headers. For the record, here's how I installed the headers:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)

Turns out, the installer is looking for the version.h file in under [kernelsource path]/include/linux/version.h, it's not there. The location of version.h is [kernelsource path]include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h

The solution is a symlink:

sudo ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)/include/linux/version.h

After creating this symlink, I was able to run the VMware Tools installer without a problem.

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)

& then install VM-WARE-TOOLS

Go to vmware "VM" tab to install vmware tools

Plz Keep it in mind when you update Ubuntu ( & the kernel version is changed ) u need to run

vmware-config-tools.pl

every time only when kernel is changed

1) Use Install VMWare Tools option in VMWare Client to attach media

2) Update the server

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

3) Create the mount point

sudo mkdir -p /media/cdrom

4) Mount the ISO

sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

5) Change Directory

cd /media/cdrom

6) Copy the tar file to your /tmp directory

sudo cp VM*.tar.gz /tmp

7) Install Build tools if necessary

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-server build-essential
(for desktop is "sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential")

8) Change Directory

cd /tmp

9) Unmount the ISO

sudo umount /media/cdrom

10) Expand the tar

sudo tar xzvf VM*.tar.gz

11) Change Directory

cd vmware-tools-distrib

12) Create a special directory

sudo mkdir /usr/lib64

13) Run the Install Script

sudo ./vmware-install.pl -d

14) Reboot

sudo reboot

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