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[norman]

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> To get around this, you can always run Menu Editor, and manually add 
> your new menu items. Firt to get an idea of just how many programs 
> Ubuntu has neglected to add to your menu, run the following command in 
> Terminal.
> 
> update-menus --stdout > ~/menuitems.txt
> 
> Now open the menuitems.txt file with Gedit [Text Editor on th 
> Applicaations menu] and start looking through it for software packages 
> that do not have menu entries on your current menu. When you find one, 
> open the Menu Editor by right clicking on the menu on your top panel, 
> and select "Edit Menus" from the small drop down menu.

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I thought I would try this but got an error update-menus command not
found. I wonder why?

Norman