Re: Adding installed packages to menu
> might be useful to you sometime. All of this can also be done from the
> command line but you probably want to use the GUI that you are
> already using.
I don't use the menus much -- I usually run things through the command
line as Thorny was saying -- but it looks like there's some menu
management tools through a GUI under System -> Preferences -> Main
Menu. You can show/hide menu items, sort them according to whatever
categorization you like, and add/remove new menu items relating to new
software packages.
Hope this helps.
~JS
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Thorny <thorntreehome@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:26:33 +0900, Bret Busby wrote:
>
>> Synaptic installs then loses packages; it downloads and installs a package
>> and its dependencies, and then, when queried, it shows the package and its
>> dependancies to be installed, but it does not add the packages to the
>> menu, and, in the Properties dialogue box in Synaptic, it shows the
>> application category, where I assume that the application should be added
>> to the Applications menu hierarchy; under the label of Section, on the
>> Common tab, but it does not show anything like a path to the package
>> executable file, so, basically, the package gets installed and then lost,
>> so it cannot be used.
>
> Well, it's not really "lost". You would be able to run the installed
> package by entering the appropriate command for the package at the command
> line of a terminal. If the package maintainer chooses to not have package
> configuration automagically add it to a menu that doesn't mean it is lost
> or won't work. The system administrator (who installs the package as root)
> can decide which and who's menu the package shows up in and that is the
> behaviour I prefer, perhaps others also do.
>
> By the way, since you use Synaptic, if you check the properties of the
> package from the Synaptic menu and look at the "Installed Files" tab it
> will show you where all of the files from the package have been installed.
> That will give you the location of the executable binary for the package.
> In addition, it shows the location for any documentation installed, which
> might be useful to you sometime. All of this can also be done from the
> command line but you probably want to use the GUI that you are
> already using.
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