On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:51:28 +0100, you wrote:
>James wrote:
>>
>> I posted about this problem a couple weeks ago and someone posted a
>> solution, but I had gone ahead and done a reinstall of the system. In
>> the meantime I find I need to thry that very same solution but no
>> longer have the message to refer to. Whoever posted it I would
>> appreciate a resend.
>>
>> I did an upgrade on a Mandrake install to the latest 5.3. However for
>> all KDE applications and files on the menu in KDE all K apps are
>> duplicated.
>>
>> If the person who sent the solution to try would resend it, It would
>> be most appreciated.
>
>hello
>
>
>when updating a rpm package, some files are kept under the ".sav"
>extension. So the .kdelnk files (which describe the menu entries) are
>duplicated - please run:
>
> rm -f `find /opt/kde/share/applnk -name *.kdelnk.rpmsave -print`
>
>and restart the window manager (K->panel->restart). It should work.
Tried it...didnt work.....so manually went into the directories and
removed all the .rpmsave files. Now menus are fine
>
>Note that this little script has been put in the new kdebase package
>(in %postinst section) and I wonder why it does not seem to work.. :-/
Not sure......when I ran it....it just sat there....didnt seem to have
any affect on the files. Left if sitting twice for over 15 minutes
each time and ended up control-c ing out of it. When I checked the
directories it had not done anything noticable.
Dennis
>
>Greets,
>
> Gael.
