How to install VMware Tools in Linux Mint 18.2 (Ubuntu 16)

Official guides for installation VMware Tools in different OS you can find here. But, I describe simple way.

We have:

- WMware Workstation 12.5.7

- fresh installed guest OS - GNU/Linux Mint 18.2 (Cinnamon)

After you installed Linux Mint on WMware Workstation and your guest system has low resolution, that makes 1st system manipulations difficult,  it is easy way to change it:

Menu (Start) - System Settings - Display (and chose higher resolution)

1. In WMware GUI chose "VM - Install VM Tools...". 

2. Open Terminal in Linux Mint.

3. Open Firefox with this instruction for copy/paste commands.

4. In Terminal paste and run next 3 commands:

sudo mkdir /mnt/cdrom && sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

cp /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-*.tar.gz /tmp && tar -zxf /tmp/VMwareTools-*.tar.gz -C /tmp

sudo /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl --default

5. Close Terminal, reboot Linux Mint, and check guest auto fit function.