Installing VMWare tools on linux

Reference: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/509898

Make sure open-vm-tools is not installed.

sudo apt-get remove open-vm-tools

1. Make sure the updates are done:

sudo apt-get update

2. Make sure git is installed

sudo apt-get install git

3. Run the command to get the tools from repository.
sudo git clone https://github.com/rasa/vmware-tools-patches.git

4. cd to vmware-tools-folder
cd vmware-tools-patches

5. Run the patch
sudo ./download-tools.sh 7.1.3
(open download-tools.sh to see available options. The file recommends using the latest version, however, 7.1.3 is what worked for me)

6. Run the following patch
sudo ./untar-and-patch.sh

7. Run the complie.sh file
sudo ./compile.sh