---
title: "VMware Tools Setup on Debian 7"
date: "2013-07-25"
path: "/153-vmware-tools-setup-on-debian-7.html"
section: "/ramblings"
aliases:
  - "/153"
  - "/153-vmware-tools-setup-on-debian-7"
  - "/153.html"
  - "/ramblings/153-vmware-tools-setup-on-debian-7.html"
---

Before starting we need to make sure that we have the correct tools for building the VMware tools (warning GCC is approx 120Mb):

```
apt-get install gcc make linux-headers-$(uname -r)
```

```
cd /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/include/
pwd
```

Resulting in the correct path being:

```
pwd
/lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/build/include
```

Then its time to get the current VMware tools application:

```
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
ls -al /mnt/cdrom/
cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-9.2.3-1031360.tar.gz ~/
cd ~/
tar -xvf VMwareTools-9.2.3-1031360.tar.gz
cd vmware-tools-distrib/
./vmware-install.pl
```