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Notes for 12.0.1-2 [edit: applicable to 12.0.5-1]:

• You need to download the VMware-Remote-Console .bundle from https://www.vmware.com/go/download-vmrc and place it in the same directory as the PKGBUILD.

• vmware-keymaps has been made an optional dependency. vmrc will run fine without it, although I imagine how well it works may depend on your keyboard setup. Making it an optional dependency removes the problem of conflicting files between vmware packages, but also lets those who don't need it ignore it.

It might be a good idea to change file:// to local:// (see: https://github.com/archlinuxfr/yaourt/issues/123)

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index d6dbb62..e21fa88 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ license=('custom:vmware')
 depends=()
 optdepends=()

-source=("file://VMware-Remote-Console-11.1.0-15913118.x86_64.bundle"
+source=("local://VMware-Remote-Console-11.1.0-15913118.x86_64.bundle"
         "bootstrap"
         "config")

(EDIT: added section) this would make it clear that it is expected to be run locally. Or you could change it like this

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index d6dbb62..2aeb1bd 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ license=('custom:vmware')
 depends=()
 optdepends=()

-source=("file://VMware-Remote-Console-11.1.0-15913118.x86_64.bundle"
+source=("file:///tmp/VMware-Remote-Console-11.1.0-15913118.x86_64.bundle"
         "bootstrap"
         "config")

and add a step in the comments to say to download the file there (otherwise it is unnecessary complicated).

@ptrj Thanks! Bumped the version.

Hi, is new version

Name: VMware-Remote-Console-11.1.0-15913118.x86_64.bundle
Release Date: 2020-04-02
Build Number: 15913118
MD5SUM: e0debad7a63341e96d6f9edd36f60ccc
SHA1SUM: ff05c69816cbf6bcdd5cb8b89d9c421e0e7e4da1
SHA256SUM: 83f0768d3ad081ae064d5c42c72a6489ff69bb918292a5a007da6d98bdf56966

@paradinglunatic I think if that is an issue we can try moving these files to a shared "meta" package, but I am not sure if it is the best solution. Anyway just renaming them should also do the job, and I think there will be no issues :)

because with an AUR package the files are tracked by pacman which is a clean way to use this program without messing up your system. furthermore it's not possible to automate the download since the installer isn't public.

So why even bother with an aur package if it requires us to manually edit the pkgbuild every time we update. We Might as well fore go this package and stick to the manual install

seems like you didn't read the pinned comments

Seems like the url is wrong:

-> Downloading VMware-Remote-Console-11.0.0-15201582.x86_64.bundle...
    curl: (3) URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading file://VMware-Remote-Console-11.0.0-15201582.x86_64.bundle
    Aborting...
:: Unable to build vmware-vmrc - makepkg exited with code: 1

Is there any way to install this alongside the Horizon Client AUR packages as well? When trying to install this after I've already installed the Horizon Client AUR packages I get conflicting files. Mainly a bunch of keymap files for different languages at /usr/lib/vmware/xkeymap/ (us101, us104, etc)

Edit... I just moved the old xkeymap folder to xkeymapold. Can't imagine it'll cause an issue, but I guess I'll find out soon enough.

@johnnybash Yea you are right... I updated the package :)

Thank you very much!