Under Debian necessary:

apt-get install autoconf automake make psmisc gcc  
apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential

Short:

tar -xzvf VMwareTools-######.tar.gz  
cd vmware-tools-distrib  
./vmware-install.pl  
vmware-tools-config.pl

Long:

Viclient, Connect to VM  
Menu "VM/Install VMware Tools"  
Tools are mounted to Cdrom  
mkdir /mnt/cdrom  
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom  
cd /mnt/cdrom  
tar zxvf VMware-Tools-xxxxxx.tar.gz -C /opt/  
cd /opt/vmware-tools-distrib  
./vmware-install.pl