Re: Adding installed packages to menu
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:51:20AM +0900, Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> was heard to say:
The package is flightgear, the Flight Gear Flight simulator.
I installed flightgear on my computer overnight to test this myself,
and it does appear to go into the Gnome menu, under
"Applications -> Games". Its .desktop file should look like this:
$ cat /usr/share/applications/flightgear.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Version=1.4
Name=FlightGear
Exec=fgfs
Terminal=false
Categories=Game;Simulation;
Comment=A flight simulator
Comment[pt]=Simulação de Vôo
Icon=
Daniel
I tried as the user, and was unsuccessful with the above command, so,
assuming that privilege was restricted to the root account, tried as
root;
"
bret@bretnewworkstation:~$ cat
/usr/share/applications/flightgear.desktop
cat: /usr/share/applications/flightgear.desktop: No such file or
directory
bret@bretnewworkstation:~$ su - root
Password:
bretnewworkstation:~# cat /usr/share/applications/flightgear.desktop
cat: /usr/share/applications/flightgear.desktop: No such file or
directory
"
So, it is not shown there.
From history in Synaptic;
"Commit Log for Mon Mar 2 13:41:22 2009
Installed the following packages:
fgfs-base (0.9.10-1)
flightgear (0.9.10-2)
freeglut3 (2.4.0-5)
libalut0 (1.0.1-1)
libopenal0a (1:0.0.8-4)
plib1.8.4c2 (1.8.4-6)
simgear0 (0.3.10-2)
"
So, the package and its dependencies show as having been installed, but
no .desktop file was apparently created.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
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