Program Menus not Updating When Installing new Programs

[Andrew Farris]

On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 23:44 +0000, Steve wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:41:41 -0000, Andrew Farris <flyindragon1 at aol.com>  
> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 23:17 -0600, Andrew Farris wrote:
> >> Hey everybody,
> >>
> >> I've been having an odd intermittent issue with menus not updating when
> >> installing new programs on Ubuntu 9.10, x64 bit. For most programs I've
> >> tried to install so far (all from official repositories) I get no menu
> >> entries after the install, despite the fact that menu entries exist in
> >> the packages themselves. I've never had this issue before, and I'm not
> >> sure what to do to fix it. See below for important info...
> >>
> If it happens again just run
> 
>     update-menus

I appreciate the suggestion, but I already tried that, and it did
nothing. See the 'What I've tried:' part of my original email

Thanks!

-- 
Andrew
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