VMwareWorkstation menus

[Kam Leo]

On 8/24/06, Robert Locke <lists at ralii.com> 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?
> Let it run through and the icons should be back....
>
> --Rob
>

This is a case of YMMV. In my case, after I did an "rpm -Uvh" with the
5.5.2 rpm package vmware-config.pl failed due to a permissions problem
in /tmp/vmware-config0/. Everything went fine after I extracted the
.gz tarball, ran vmware-install.sh, and then vmware-config.pl.