One of the popular package managers for Arch Linux is “pacman”.

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sudo pacman -Syu                # Update and upgrade system packages
sudo pacman -S package_name     # Install a new package
sudo pacman -R package_name     # Remove a package
sudo pacman -Rn package_name    # Remove along with backup-ed config files
sudo pacman -Rsu package_name   # Remove along with dependencies

If you do not have wget on your machine, you can install like so:

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sudo pacman -S wget

Then follow the steps below:

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wget http://www.as2.com/linux/tools/vmtools-4-arch-and-co.tar.bz2
tar -xjf vmtools-4-arch-and-co.tar.bz2
sudo bash vmtools-4-arch-and-co.sh

Now you may have a vmware-tools installed on your machine. The left thing is to daemonize your vmware-tools.

Let’s make a service file first.

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sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/vmwaretools.service
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[Unit]
Description=VMWare Tools daemon

[Service]
ExecStart=/etc/init.d/vmware-tools start
ExecStop=/etc/init.d/vmware-tools stop
PIDFile=/var/lock/subsys/vmware-tools
TimeoutSec=0
RemainAfterExit=yes

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Well then, you know, enable and start your awesome service!

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sudo systemctl enable --now vmwaretools

Your machine is all set now, you evil archer! :XD

Thanks for reading!