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I'm Beginner in Linux and just sometimes working with it to learn it, may I ask which Linux Header package needed for VMware tools?
As I mentioned before, because I'm newbie, I'm always installing Linux (CentOS or RHEL or ...) with All Package except the server tools and software which I may not need them, and never need anything to install VMware tools (may be its one affect of being a beginner 
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It just depends on the Linux distribution.
If you are using Redhat or Clones, that are in the supported guest OS list, you may install the vmware-tools without any flaws right out of the box. VMware provides kernel modules compiled for that supported versions.
If one is using other distributions, most likely at the bleeding edge new ones, the modules provided by VMware are not matching to the specific kernel version. So one has to compile it's own modules (vmware-config.pl) and the compile process needs obviously a compiler and the appropriate kernel-headers all together with some tools (make and so on).
On some distributions (eg OpenSuSE) you will find the open-vmtools already added and installed. They get patched and redistributed, when new kernel patches are added. So one does not need to use a compiler.
Installing a linux server, i I usually install the smallest subset of a distribution. Less packages, less security concerns, less time to patch, less bandwith and downtimes 
