Thanks
Aaron
I am really looking for a way to create some post install routines for
turnkey that will scan a file which has a list of installed programs with a
menu item in it and add these automatically to the mandrake menus.
I would need to be pointed where to look for what format such a file should
be in and how to link it up. (like it was an rpm data base that
mandrake/kdes/gnomes menus would think they were the same and update their
menus from it)
Aaron
--On Wednesday, December 18, 2002 12:22:55 PM + Derek Jennings
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 18 Dec 2002 1:35 pm, Aaron Mehl wrote:
I am having menu problems.
I have lots of rpms that don't appear in the menu of mandrake and I want
to know how to scan the rpm database and have them added to the menus.
I also have applications which I added from sources or shell script
installations which I also would like to scan somehow and add them to the
menu.
I would think a way exists for rpms already. (as I remember in the old
kde there was)
But for tars etc., there would have to be a custom script or something??
I realize that for command line apps this doesn't seem so important. I
could if want later go into the gui and have it run from a shell.
Thanks
Aaron
AM in the AM (PM)
You will only get an automatic menu entry if the spec of the RPM defines
one.
If you think some menus entries are missing, then the command
'update-menus' as root will update the menus of every user.
Of course if you have been installing non-mandrake RPMs then the menu
entries are not compatible and will not appear.
(Note: It is possible for a 'bad' menu entry to prevent other menu items
being displayed. I remember Civileme wrote a script to check for
malformed menu entries. A search of the archives will find it for you)
HTH
derek
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