Re: update-menus not working? Here is my info.
At 2001/02/10(6)/10:02, Xucaen wrote:
> > > ?package(jed):needs="text" \
> > > section="Apps/Editors" \
> > > title="jed" \
> > > command="/usr/bin/jed"
[ ... and `dpkg -l jed' shows it's installed OK, still updates-menu ignores jed]
A strange story! I just copied your `jed' file to my own
/etc/menu, and changed the `?pacakge(jed)' to `?package(local.jed)',
and it works OK for me (I don't have jed installed, so I just
added the `local.')
> xucaen@whitestar:/etc/menu$ ls -l
> total 20
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 397 Jan 22 2000 README
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 127 Jan 25 12:07 aim
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 97 Jan 30 08:12 jed
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 116 Jan 30 07:30 mc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103 Jan 30 07:30 xjed
That's fine too.
>
> I tried update-menus -d.
> There is too much output to capture
Well, you can try
update-menus -d 2> file
and you can later read file slowly. (using `less' for example)
(and, a UNIX tip: see `man script' if you want a more
general solution to `too much output to capture')
> , but from
> what I am able to see it never processes
> etc/menu/jed or /etc/menu/xjed (but how can that
> be?)
There realy should be a line like:
Update-menus[1659]: Reading menuentryfile /etc/menu/jed
in the `update-menus -d' output. Are you certain even
that is missing? Then something strange is going on.
Oh, maybe you already told me, but what version of menu
are you using? (dpkg -l menu)
Thanks,
joostje
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