open-vm-dkms software package provides Open VMware Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware (transitional package), you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install open-vm-dkms
open-vm-dkms is installed in your system.
Make ensure the open-vm-dkms package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep open-vm-dkms *
You will get with open-vm-dkms package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Administration Utilities |
| Package | open-vm-dkms |
| Version | 2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6 |
| Description | Open VMware Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware (transitional package) |
| Sub Section | Admin |