On Friday 04 January 2002 23:15, you wrote: > When I was using Caldera Openlinux 3.1 there was an update tool.. that > automatically looked for applications to add to the menu... can anyone > help > > On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 21:45, Dennis Myers wrote: > > On Friday 04 January 2002 22:29, you wrote: > > > Why doesn't the menu update itself when new programs are added or have > > > the update file that looks for programs to add to the menu? > > > > Don't have an answer but it doesn't hurt to on occasion after adding > > programs packages or whatever to go to a single user mode and from the > > command prompt as root: type in : "rpm -rebuilddb " then when it > > returns to a commant prompt type in: "update-menus -v" the -v for > > verbose so you can see the progress of the menu update. Thus if a > > package is installed and it is set up to automatically put an icon on the > > desktop or a button on the taskbare etc the new dodad should appear. > > Otherwise you will have to go looking for the icon as a .png or something > > like that. HTH > > -- > > Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 > > > > ---- > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Forgot about "Menu Drake". In KDE desktop click on the "K" and Configuration>other>menudrake or go to a console and type "menudrake" and you can add from there. HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
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