Program Menus not Updating When Installing new Programs

[NoOp]

On 01/07/2010 04:02 PM, Andrew Farris wrote:
> 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!
> 

Perhaps:

$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-menus

might work.