VMWare Tool Installation for Ubuntu

#Mount the CD drom 
sudo mkdir /mnt/cdrom

sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

#Run this command to find the exact name of the VMware Tools bundle; the file name varies depending on your version of Fusion:
ls /mnt/cdrom

#Extract contents of cdrom to tmp directory
tar -zxvf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-.tar.gz -C /tmp/

Note: is the version discovered in the previous step which at the time of writing was VMwareTools-8.3.7-341836.tar.gz

#now move into the vmware tools directory in tmp directory. 
cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/

#Run the installer  with the -d switch to accept defaults.
sudo ./vmware-install.pl -d