synaptic package manager not in menu

[Patton Echols]

On 09/15/2009 06:32 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:40:30PM -0400, Fred Roller wrote:
>   
>> Robert Holtzman wrote:
>>     
>>> After creating an account for my step-daughter, I gave her (temporary) 
>>> admin privileges so she could install some software. When I had her 
>>> look in the System -> Administration menu synaptic package manager was 
>>> absent. I was able to install the s/w she wanted with apt-get so she 
>>> *did* have admin privileges. "Edit Menus" showed the package manager 
>>> was checked. Running "/usr/sbin/synaptic worked but I would like it in 
>>> the GUI menu for her.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Try:
>>
>> Hover over the "Application Places System" area of the panel and :
>>
>>     Right Click->Edit Menus
>>
>> in the resulting windows scroll down to the "System:Administration" line 
>> and click.  In the right side see if Synaptic is checked.  If not, check 
>> it.  Try that and see if it adds the Synaptic menu item to the menu.
>>     
>
> Ummmmm......from my original post:
>  
>   
>> "Edit Menus" showed the package manager was checked.
>>     
>
> A little elementary but thanks anyway.
>
>   
I don't know if you ever resolved this, but you did not mention whether 
you restarted the Gnome desktop.  I just installed virtualbox.  It added 
a new category under Applications which did not show up in the menus.  I 
remembered this thread and did the same checks, no joy.  Then I logged 
out of my 'buntu sesson and logged back in again.  The menu lists were 
updated!  There should be a better way to do this, but in the absense of 
some other method this may work.  (At least not a full reboot!)

Cheers