Extract VMware Tools Ubuntu 16.04
Hi! This Tip shows you How to Extract VMware Tools on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial LTS GNU/Linux Desktops.
Especially relevant: then follow the included instructions to Install VMware Tools on Ubuntu 16.04 Guests.

How to Download & Extract VMware Tools Ubuntu Manually
Finally, to Extract VMware Tools tar.gz on Ubuntu
Possibly Double-Click on it on Desktop:Or from Shell:
tar xvzf VMware*.tar.gz -C /tmp/
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