Cannot use or upgrade VMware Tools on an old Linux guest

Hello,

I have an older Linux guest that worked flawlessly with the Player (I think version 1 or 2). A year ago I bought Workstation Pro 14 and the Tools in the guest don't work anymore.

I am really disappointed as Workstation cost me a huge amount of money. I tried to upgrade the Tools but it did not work (see the picture).

What is making me upset:

1. The software says I should run vmware-install.pl which does not exist.

2. The shell script tries to write to a mounted CD.

3. The upgrader itself does not work.

And because the Tools stopped working I cannot remember how to set desktop size in my guest OS

I want to keep this system with KDE 3, I don't want to upgrade.

Thanks in advance.