Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE
>> "m" == mguenthe <mguenthe@netcom.ca> writes:
m> I don't know if this will help, but I encountered problems myself with
m> update-menus, being unable to add menu entries for certain packages. However
m> I was able to manage a workaround by prefixing the package name with a
m> "local." For example:
m> ?package(local.Eterm):\
[....]
This is correct. The name between the parantheses has to be a package,
that dpkg -l shows as installed. update-menus checks this, so that you
only get menuentries for packages that are installed (the menu
packages provides some default entries. They would be shown, even if
you don't have the packages installed otherwise).
This may also be the problem for the original poster.
m> It may not be pretty or proper but it seems to work. Pu
Prepending "local." is the proper and documented way to add
menuentries for localy installed programms, that are not registred
with dpkg.
Your specific problem is, that there is no package "Eterm", but there is
"eterm", so ?package(eterm) \ ... will work as well.
Ciao,
Martin
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