Installing VMWare Tools

I am trying to install VMWareTools 9.6.5-270 on my freshly downloaded Linux Mint 19 from OSBoxes. I am running it inside VMWare Workstation 10.0.7 build-2844087 Like many online, I cannot get past the The path "/usr/bin/gcc" is not valid path to the gcc binary issue. I have read a few articles here and there that state there are pre-requisites that need to be installed. So far I have installed: - gcc - binutils - make - linux-source - build-essential (12.4ubuntu1) - linux-headers-4.15.0-20-generic So which package did I forget to install? Or is the install script mistakenly detecting the path as wrong?