synaptic package manager not in menu

[Patton Echols]

On 09/17/2009 10:51 AM, NoOp wrote:
> On 09/16/2009 11:31 PM, Patton Echols wrote:
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>> 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
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> $ sudo update-menus
> $ man update-menus
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Ah HA!  I knew there was something.  If you are willing to extend my 
learning just a bit more, Is this a command you were already familiar 
with?  Or is there some thought process you went through to find it.  
The latter is of most interest to me.  I find myself often scratching my 
head and finally resorting to google.  But my querys only seem to point 
to some CLI command about 20%, when I would prefer about 90.

Thanks


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