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I am having problems using the USB ports on my Acer Aspire one. I have download the USBview app and when open it I get the following error: 

Invalid desktop entry file: /usr/share/applications/usbview.desktop

I am using ubuntu 16.04.

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Ken Hill
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It looks as though USBView installs the desktop file for Ubuntu 17.10 running Wayland as it tries to run a command sudo-to-root that is not compatible with Ubuntu 16.04.

Try installing gksu for GTK sudo.

sudo apt install gksu

Then copy and paste the following line to update the Desktop File:

sudo bash -c 'sed -i "s/sudo-to-root -X -c/gksudo/" /usr/share/applications/usbview.desktop'

Hope this helps!

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