Re: Is there a way to force apt/dpkg to rebuild the menu in X ?
I found that some times you have to do some strange things with
complicated packages like x and emacs.
first of all make a copy of the /var/lib/dpkg/status package and make it
think that the paackages haven't been installeed ever by removing all of
the packages out of the status file. that is, the lines for that package
should be removed.
Then make a directory and unpack the dfiles you want with dpkg --extract
like this
mkdir package-temp
cd package-temp
now you are in the new directory where the new package is going to be
extracted.
dpkg --extract packagename destination
If you do not have the package archive you can just download the `.deb'
file you need and do the extraction.
this way you will have a tree of everything the package built in the
current directory. Then you can run dpkg-preconfigure on the package and
check your new /var/lib/dpkg/status file against the original. You may
also have to use apt-get source packagename to find what happens behind
the scenes.
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Elie De Brauwer wrote:
> On Sunday 26 January 2003 15:34, Elie De Brauwer wrote:
> > On one of my workstations (Sun Blade 100) I have a problem, my debian menu
> > isn't being updated anymore by apt. When I apt-get install galeon on
> > another x86 machine, everything works and under wmaker i get apps -> net ->
> > galeon to link to the binary, but everything on my Sun seems static,
> > nothing is getting updated anymore, is there a way to rebuild these menu's
> > ? (It's system wide for all users and in all windowmanagers).
> >
>
>
> I know i'm replying on my own messages, but i've had the suggestion of Petr
> Vanek to run update-menus, i tried this with the following result, when I
> copy the cat script (/usr/share/doc/menu/examples/cat) or the -d (debug)
> flag, everything goes well but it always ends with the following error
> messages, the items mentioned exist fgrepping for these items in
> /etc/menu-methods | wc -l results always in the same amount of lines,
> any suggestions ?
>
>
> Kafka:/home/helios# update-menus
> At least one of genmenu, startmenu, endmenu
> is undefined in the config file. All of these have to be
> defined (although they may be equal to "")
> Unknown Error
> /etc/menu-methods//twm: Aborting
> Update-menus[2362]: Script /etc/menu-methods//twm returned error status 1.
> At least one of genmenu, startmenu, endmenu
> is undefined in the config file. All of these have to be
> defined (although they may be equal to "")
> Unknown Error
> /etc/menu-methods//kdm: Aborting
> Update-menus[2362]: Script /etc/menu-methods//kdm returned error status 1.
> At least one of genmenu, startmenu, endmenu
> is undefined in the config file. All of these have to be
> defined (although they may be equal to "")
> Unknown Error
> /etc/menu-methods//kdebase: Aborting
> Update-menus[2362]: Script /etc/menu-methods//kdebase returned error status 1.
> Update-menus[2362]: Script /etc/menu-methods//sawfish-gnome recieved signal
> 11.
> Update-menus[2362]: Script /etc/menu-methods//sawfish recieved signal 11.
> At least one of genmenu, startmenu, endmenu
> is undefined in the config file. All of these have to be
> defined (although they may be equal to "")
> Unknown Error
> /etc/menu-methods//wmaker: Aborting
> Update-menus[2362]: Script /etc/menu-methods//wmaker returned error status 1.
> At least one of genmenu, startmenu, endmenu
> is undefined in the config file. All of these have to be
> defined (although they may be equal to "")
> Unknown Error
> /etc/menu-methods//wmappearance: Aborting
> Update-menus[2362]: Script /etc/menu-methods//wmappearance returned error
> status
> 1.
> Update-menus[2362]: Script /etc/menu-methods//enlightenment recieved signal
> 11.
> At least one of genmenu, startmenu, endmenu
> is undefined in the config file. All of these have to be
> defined (although they may be equal to "")
> Unknown Error
> /etc/menu-methods//blackbox: Aborting
> Update-menus[2362]: Script /etc/menu-methods//blackbox returned error status
> 1.
> --
> <=================>
> Elie De Brauwer
> www.de-brauwer.be
> <=================>
>
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