How to Install open-vm-tools software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

How to Install open-vm-tools software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

open-vm-tools software package provides Open VMware Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware (CLI), 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-tools 

open-vm-tools is installed in your system.

Make ensure the open-vm-tools package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep open-vm-tools *

You will get with open-vm-tools package name, version, architecture and description in a table

open-vm-tools package basic information:

Distro Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr
Section Administration Utilities
Package open-vm-tools
Version 2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6
Description Open VMware Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware (CLI)
Sub Section Admin


See Also, How to uninstall or remove open-vm-tools software package from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)?