First of all I want to point out that you haven provided the information that was asked and secondly you should always provide no less then the following information along with what the issues might be...
VMware Product Name and Version.
Host OS Name and Version.
Guest OS Name and Version
Host Computer Manufacture and Model.
Also have a look at as a guideline for additional information you should be including.
Without providing this information in some cases it can make it much harder to provide proper support for whatever the issues are and in this particular case the VMware Tools you have stated "VMwareTools-3.5.0-158874.tar.gz" does not appear to be one that is included in VMware Fusion and this forum you've posted in is for VMware Fusion.
So you need to provide additional information in order to help resolve your issue.
Also since "vmware-install.pl" is a link to "/vmware-tools-distrib/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl" and you say that file does not exist then I'd be checking the MD5 checksum of the VMware Product you downloaded and make sure it matches what's published at the VMware Site for that download. I might even go as far as manually mounting the linux.iso file and extract the contents to a temp folder on the Host just to see if it's in the .tar.gz package to make sure it's not a issue occurring from within the Guest.
Anyway if you'd provide adequate information someone might be able to help figure out where the problem is.
