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
> >
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> >
> >
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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
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