Comment 19 for bug 1500581

i think the situation is more like Ubuntu has not yet update their open-vm-tools-dkms package to pick the 9.10.3 or 10.0.5 release of open-vm-tools from github.

when you trying to install vmware-tools shipped with vmware player, if it detect there is open-vm-tools installed (released by Ubuntu) then it will not replace it as we are in favor of the distro packaged one.

> dpkg -l open-vm-tools-dkms
the one in the repository is still 9.10.2 ... i have not try the PPA yet.

VMware support for open-vm-tools (2073803), http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803