deployPkg is sometimes needed for guest customization and is missing from open-vm-tools for no good reason.
The raw files are located here.
Import the VMware packaging public keys, add their (slow as molasses) repo to the repo list and install the package.
mkdir keys
cd keys
wget http://packages.vmware.com/tools/keys/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-DSA-KEY.pub
wget http://packages.vmware.com/tools/keys/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-RSA-KEY.pub
sudo apt-key add VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-DSA-KEY.pub
sudo apt-key add VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-RSA-KEY.pub
touch /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vmware-tools.list
echo deb http://packages.vmware.com/packages/ubuntu precise main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vmware-tools.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools-deploypkg
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