[CANCELED]Re: vmware-server on Edgy

[John Dangler]

On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 22:55 -0500, John Dangler wrote:
> Installing vmware-server from vmware.com ...
> 
> During install (setting up .desktop files in /usr/share/applications - 
> /usr/share/applications/vmware-server.desktop: error: Categories values
> must be one of "Core", "Development", "Building", "Debugger", "IDE",
> "GUIDesigner", "Profiling", "RevisionControl", "Translation", "Office",
> "Calendar", "ContactManagement", "Database", "Dictionary", "Chart",
> "Email", "Finance", "FlowChart", "PDA", "ProjectManagement",
> "Presentation", "Spreadsheet", "WordProcessor", "Graphics",
> "2DGraphics", "VectorGraphics", "RasterGraphics", "3DGraphics",
> "Scanning", "OCR", "Photography", "Viewer", "Settings",
> "DesktopSettings", "HardwareSettings", "PackageManager", "Network",
> "Dialup", "InstantMessaging", "IRCClient", "FileTransfer", "HamRadio",
> "News", "P2P", "RemoteAccess", "Telephony", "WebBrowser",
> "WebDevelopment", "AudioVideo", "Audio", "Midi", "Mixer", "Sequencer",
> "Tuner", "Video", "TV", "AudioVideoEditing", "Player", "Recorder",
> "DiscBurning", "Game", "ActionGame", "AdventureGame", "ArcadeGame",
> "BoardGame", "BlocksGame", "CardGame", "KidsGame", "LogicGame",
> "RolePlaying", "Simulation", "SportsGame", "StrategyGame", "Education",
> "Art", "Construction", "Music", "Languages", "Science", "Astronomy",
> "Biology", "Chemistry", "Geology", "Math", "MedicalSoftware", "Physics",
> "Teaching", "Amusement", "Applet", "Archiving", "Electronics",
> "Emulator", "Engineering", "FileManager", "Shell", "ScreenSaver",
> "TeminalEmulator", "TrayIcon", "System", "Filesystem", "Monitor",
> "Security", "Utility", "Accessibility", "Calculator", "Clock",
> "TextEditor", "KDE", "GNOME", "GTK", "Qt", "Motif", "Java",
> "ConsoleOnly" (found "Application")
> desktop-file-install created an invalid desktop file!
> Unable to install the .desktop menu entry file. You must add it to your
> menus 
> by hand.
> /usr/share/applications/vmware-console-uri-handler.desktop: error:
> Categories values must be one of "Core", "Development", "Building",
> "Debugger", "IDE", "GUIDesigner", "Profiling", "RevisionControl",
> "Translation", "Office", "Calendar", "ContactManagement", "Database",
> "Dictionary", "Chart", "Email", "Finance", "FlowChart", "PDA",
> "ProjectManagement", "Presentation", "Spreadsheet", "WordProcessor",
> "Graphics", "2DGraphics", "VectorGraphics", "RasterGraphics",
> "3DGraphics", "Scanning", "OCR", "Photography", "Viewer", "Settings",
> "DesktopSettings", "HardwareSettings", "PackageManager", "Network",
> "Dialup", "InstantMessaging", "IRCClient", "FileTransfer", "HamRadio",
> "News", "P2P", "RemoteAccess", "Telephony", "WebBrowser",
> "WebDevelopment", "AudioVideo", "Audio", "Midi", "Mixer", "Sequencer",
> "Tuner", "Video", "TV", "AudioVideoEditing", "Player", "Recorder",
> "DiscBurning", "Game", "ActionGame", "AdventureGame", "ArcadeGame",
> "BoardGame", "BlocksGame", "CardGame", "KidsGame", "LogicGame",
> "RolePlaying", "Simulation", "SportsGame", "StrategyGame", "Education",
> "Art", "Construction", "Music", "Languages", "Science", "Astronomy",
> "Biology", "Chemistry", "Geology", "Math", "MedicalSoftware", "Physics",
> "Teaching", "Amusement", "Applet", "Archiving", "Electronics",
> "Emulator", "Engineering", "FileManager", "Shell", "ScreenSaver",
> "TeminalEmulator", "TrayIcon", "System", "Filesystem", "Monitor",
> "Security", "Utility", "Accessibility", "Calculator", "Clock",
> "TextEditor", "KDE", "GNOME", "GTK", "Qt", "Motif", "Java",
> "ConsoleOnly" (found "Application")
> desktop-file-install created an invalid desktop file!
> Unable to install the .desktop menu entry file. You must add it to your
> menus 
> by hand.
> 
> Anyone know how I can dig out the info to create the .desktop files ?
nm.  For some reason, the desktop info showed up anyway...
However, for anyone who is trying this out - register FIRST before
downloading... My license for vmware-server (issued when I ran under
Dapper) was invalid.  I actually had to go and register again (using all
of the exact same information) to get another serial number for the
install to work.
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