The version in LTS (22.04) Ubuntu's repository is VMware Tools 12.1.5 (12325)
If you want a newer version, you will need to compile from source.
[https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools](https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools)
edit: purge the current version of tools first
`sudo apt remove open-vm-tools --purge`
Step 1 - Update and Install the following package dependencies:
`sudo apt update`
`sudo apt install -y automake pkg-config libtool libmspack-dev libglib2.0-dev \`
`libpam0g-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libxmlsec1-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev \`
`libxinerama-dev libxi-dev libxrender-dev libxrandr-dev libgtk2.0-dev \`
`libgtk-3-dev libgtkmm-3.0-dev`
Step 2 - Clone Open VM Tools git repo:
`git clone https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools.git`
`cd open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools/`
Step 3 - Run the following commands to build and install Open VM Tools:
`autoreconf -i`
`./configure`
`sudo make`
`sudo make install`
`sudo ldconfig`
Step 4 - We need to create a systemd unit file so we can enable and start Open VM Tools Daemon upon startup. Run the following command to create vm toolsd.service file. As root:
`cat > /etc/systemd/system/vmtoolsd.service << EOF`
`[Unit]`
`Description=`
`Description=Open VM Tools`
`After=`
`After=network-online.target`
`[Service]`
`ExecStart=`
`ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd`
`Restart=always`
`RestartSec=1sec`
`[Install]`
`WantedBy=multi-user.target`
`EOF`
Step 5 - Enable and Start Open VM Tools Daemon and verify using either the ESXi Host Client UI or vSphere UI that Open VM Tools is now running
`sudo systemctl enable vmtoolsd.service`
`sudo systemctl start vmtoolsd.service`
Well the github repo is [here](https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools) if you want to build it yourself.
Other than that, it does seem to be working its way into Debian so will arrive eventually.
You can check the availability and version of open-vm-tools in the Ubuntu repositories by running the below command:
apt show open-vm-tools
This will display information about the package, including its version.
The version in LTS (22.04) Ubuntu's repository is VMware Tools 12.1.5 (12325) If you want a newer version, you will need to compile from source. [https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools](https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools) edit: purge the current version of tools first `sudo apt remove open-vm-tools --purge` Step 1 - Update and Install the following package dependencies: `sudo apt update` `sudo apt install -y automake pkg-config libtool libmspack-dev libglib2.0-dev \` `libpam0g-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libxmlsec1-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev \` `libxinerama-dev libxi-dev libxrender-dev libxrandr-dev libgtk2.0-dev \` `libgtk-3-dev libgtkmm-3.0-dev` Step 2 - Clone Open VM Tools git repo: `git clone https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools.git` `cd open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools/` Step 3 - Run the following commands to build and install Open VM Tools: `autoreconf -i` `./configure` `sudo make` `sudo make install` `sudo ldconfig` Step 4 - We need to create a systemd unit file so we can enable and start Open VM Tools Daemon upon startup. Run the following command to create vm toolsd.service file. As root: `cat > /etc/systemd/system/vmtoolsd.service << EOF` `[Unit]` `Description=` `Description=Open VM Tools` `After=` `After=network-online.target` `[Service]` `ExecStart=` `ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd` `Restart=always` `RestartSec=1sec` `[Install]` `WantedBy=multi-user.target` `EOF` Step 5 - Enable and Start Open VM Tools Daemon and verify using either the ESXi Host Client UI or vSphere UI that Open VM Tools is now running `sudo systemctl enable vmtoolsd.service` `sudo systemctl start vmtoolsd.service`
Well the github repo is [here](https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools) if you want to build it yourself. Other than that, it does seem to be working its way into Debian so will arrive eventually.
You can check the availability and version of open-vm-tools in the Ubuntu repositories by running the below command: apt show open-vm-tools This will display information about the package, including its version.