synaptic package manager not in menu

[NoOp]

On 09/16/2009 11:31 PM, Patton Echols wrote:
...
> 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
> 

$ sudo update-menus
$ man update-menus