Re: vmware packaged as .deb

2004-07-08 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * William Ballard [Tue, Jul 06 2004, 03:20:02AM]: > The guy who packages ATI fglrx drivers for Debian > (http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html) > is a godsend. > > Has anybody ever done a similar sort of thing to VMWare? It would be > highly useful. In

Re: vmware packaged as .deb

2004-07-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 00:30, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Always use find (blah) -print0 | xargs -0 > > It is safer. Very good point. I'd forgotten that. Occasionally paths with spaces catch me out, and then I go and use the -print0/-0 option, but most of the time I'm too lazy to type it

Re: vmware packaged as .deb

2004-07-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Always use find (blah) -print0 | xargs -0 It is safer. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: vmware packaged as .deb

2004-07-06 Thread Lukas Ruf
> William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-07-06 18:28]: > > command must support reading args from stdin. > that's not fully true. xargs yes, but assume rm. See the man page of xargs. wbr, Lukas -- Lukas Ruf | Wanna know anything about raw | | IP? ->

Re: vmware packaged as .deb

2004-07-06 Thread William Ballard
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 01:34:20PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just some tips on using find: > > > rm -r `find /usr/local -name '*vmware* -type d` > > find /usr/local -name '*vmware*' -exec rm -rf {} \; Oh lord, I've opened the can of worms.

Re: vmware packaged as .deb

2004-07-06 Thread William Ballard
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 08:31:29AM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Um, vmware has a perfectly good uninstall script. It works nicely. > Furthermore, the vmware install script will move an old version out of > the way. Oh, didn't know that, that's useful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: vmware packaged as .deb

2004-07-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 22:34, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just some tips on using find: > > > rm -r `find /usr/local -name '*vmware* -type d` > > find /usr/local -name '*vmware*' -exec rm -rf {} \; I recommend learning 'xargs' (higher performance when

Re: vmware packaged as .deb

2004-07-06 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 14:20:09 +0200, William Ballard wrote: > > And manually doing things like > rm -r `find /usr/local -name '*vmware* -type d` > rm `find /usr/local -name '*vm{ware,net,-support}*' -type f` > rm -r /etc/vmware You can use stow to solve this problem. Even though vmware appears to

Re: vmware packaged as .deb

2004-07-06 Thread Thomas Adam
--- William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just some tips on using find: > rm -r `find /usr/local -name '*vmware* -type d` find /usr/local -name '*vmware*' -exec rm -rf {} \; > rm `find /usr/local -name '*vm{ware,net,-support}*' -type f` (encompasses the above) > rm -r /etc/vmware -- Th

Re: vmware packaged as .deb

2004-07-06 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 05:13:32AM -0700, William Ballard wrote: } On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 08:01:41AM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: } > On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 03:20:02AM -0700, William Ballard wrote: } > } The guy who packages ATI fglrx drivers for Debian } > } (http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.st

Re: vmware packaged as .deb

2004-07-06 Thread William Ballard
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 08:01:41AM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 03:20:02AM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > } The guy who packages ATI fglrx drivers for Debian > } (http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html) > } is a godsend. > } > } Has anybo

Re: vmware packaged as .deb

2004-07-06 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 03:20:02AM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > The guy who packages ATI fglrx drivers for Debian > (http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html) > is a godsend. > > Has anybody ever done a similar sort of thing to VMWare? It would be > highly useful

Re: vmware packaged as .deb

2004-07-06 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 03:20:02AM -0700, William Ballard wrote: } The guy who packages ATI fglrx drivers for Debian } (http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html) } is a godsend. } } Has anybody ever done a similar sort of thing to VMWare? It would be } highly useful