Issues with installing vmware tools for ubuntu 14.04

I downloaded the ubuntu 14.04 iso for desktop off of the ubuntu website to use for my vmware workstation 9. However, easy install doesn't work. I went through some suggestions from various sites, so I ended up making a new directory called /mnt/cdrom and mounting the /dev/cdrom to that directory. Looking at a youtube channel, when you list the files in the /mnt/cdrom, VMwareTools-<esx version>.i386.tar.gz or a similar file shows. However, when I do the same steps, the that VMware tools file isn't present. Instead, these files are

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