Fixing "The following VMware kernal modules have been found on your system that were not installed by the VMware installer."

Fixing "The following VMware kernal modules have been found on your system that were not installed by the VMware installer." If you are getting the following error when trying to install the tools:

"The following VMware kernal modules have been found on your system that were
not installed by the VMware installer. Please remove them then run the installer again.

- vmblock
- vmmon
- vmnet

Execution aborted."

You are getting this error probably because you upgraded the kernel without removing VMware tools first, so now the modules are there and won't uninstall for some reason.

Run these commands to manually remove vmware tools (mostly):

sudo rm -rf /etc/vmware*
sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/vmware-tools
sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc/vm*

Now you should be able to run the installation again.