Hi Timo, On Donnerstag, 31. Mai 2018 01:59:09 Timo Sigurdsson wrote: > Hi, > > I just did two fresh installs to test and compare this again. My > installation routine is: Install the KDE Plasma 5 Desktop target with a few > multimedia packages deselected - namely dragonplayer, dvd+rw-tools and k3b. > I use a custom partitioning scheme (my partitions are ext4 instead of > btrfs/xfs). After the installation (from the full installer ISO), I first > updated all packages, then added the Packman Essentials repository, > switched system libraries to Packman and installed vlc and vlc-codecs from > the Packman repo. Then I looked for VLC in the application launcher, but > it's not there. So, I rebooted the system, but after the reboot, VLC still > does not show up in the application menu. > > During the second try, I proceeded exactly the same during the installation. > But after the installation I merely updated the packages and then installed > vlc from the official repositories. Right after the installation, vlc does > not show up in the application menu either. But after the reboot, it shows > up. > > Is it possible that the refreshing of the .desktop file cache does not fire > reliably during/after the installation? Or is this just done periodically?
Since you changed the filesystems during install, I suspect, the issue is related. May I ask you to: 1) show us your /etc/fstab and "grep '/ ' /proc/mounts", please? 2) (optionally) redo your test with btr or xfs as root (/usr) FS? Thanks, Pete _______________________________________________ Packman mailing list [email protected] http://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman
