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[ILUG] Strangely broken rpm package

[ILUG] Strangely broken rpm package

Lars Hecking lhecking at users.sourceforge.net
Fri May 8 13:38:36 IST 2009


> > # rpm -ql VMware-Player
> > /var/cache/vmware/VMware-Player-2.5.2-156735.x86_64.bundle
> > # ls -l /var/cache/vmware/
> > total 0
> 
> That's normal I think.
> I.E. the RPM just contains an archive which is extracted at install time.
> Not sure why they do that, probably laziness.
 
 I checked the previous version 2.0.2, and it was a proper rpm.

> > # ls -l /usr/bin/vmplayer
> > ls: /usr/bin/vmplayer: No such file or directory
> 
> seems like it was inadvertently deleted.
 
 Nope - the installation failed silently.





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