VMwareWorkstation menus [SOLVED]

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Robert Locke wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 14:04 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> Just upgraded my VMwareWorkstation RPM to v 5.5.2-29772.  Previously, I
>> had menu entries under Applications -> System Tools for VMware and VMware
>> Player, but now those are missing.
>>
>> Anybody else have the same experience?  Any idea what I did wrong?
>>
>
> Hey Matthew,
>
> My upgrade went smooth as did a fresh install I did last week of that
> RPM....
>
> I believe the vmware-config.pl script is the one responsible for
> creating said .desktop files.  The second question of that script asks
> where to install the desktop files and the default on my system
> is /usr/share/applications which I kept, and I have both icons.
>
> Did you, by any chance, abort a subsequent running of vmware-config.pl?

Nope.

> Let it run through and the icons should be back....

Didn't work the first time.

Reinstalled, reran the script, but this time did not install 
vmware-any-any-104 patch.  Now all is well, except that the patches are 
missing (if there are any that are needed).

>
> --Rob
>
>
>

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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