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Permission denied on creating application shortcut for Postman on the Desktop as sudo

Setting up Linux (CentOS) workstation as a development environment

As per page 7/10 @ https://developer.cisco.com/learning/modules/dev-setup/dev-centos/step/7,

Permission denied on creating application shortcut for Postman on the Desktop as sudo

 

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As a root, I was able to echo to  postman.desktop

echo "[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Postman
Exec=postman
Icon=/opt/Postman/resources/app/assets/icon.png   /opt/Postman/app/resources/app/assets.icon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development" > postman.desktop

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there was a typo, '.' instead of '/'

Icon=/opt/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png

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As a root, I was able to echo to  postman.desktop

echo "[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Postman
Exec=postman
Icon=/opt/Postman/resources/app/assets/icon.png   /opt/Postman/app/resources/app/assets.icon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development" > postman.desktop

there was a typo, '.' instead of '/'

Icon=/opt/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png

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