VMware provides premade packages for Linux OS'ses (such as rpm for RHEL and deb for Ubuntu / Debian). You can find them here, the only downside is that you don't see - Running (Current) in the summary tab of the VM, but rather something like third party / independent.
What you can also do is grab the tar.gz file that VMware provides and install it manually. The ISO is the same for every Linux distribution. I've uploaded the tar.gz file in the ISO for you, you can grab it from
Via the terminal / console, do something like this then:
root@srv20 [/tmp]# wget http://tomverhaeg.nl/files/VMwareTools-9.4.0-1280544.tar.gz
root@srv20 [/tmp]# tar xfz VMwareTools-9.0.0-782409.tar.gz
root@srv20 [/tmp]# cd vmware-tools-distrib/
root@srv20 [/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib]# perl ./vmware-install.pl --default