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Titel: Debian menu hosed after upgrade
Verfasst am: 16.06.2006, 09:05 Uhr
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Hi Folks,
I recently upgraded a fairly large number of packages (including the xorg upgr) via synaptic and somewhere along the line my Debian menu got hosed. All I have left is Debian -> Games -> Puzzles -> Ksudoku (kinda ironic :).
Can ynbody tell me how to recover or rebuild my Debian menu?
Thanking you kindly
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Titel: Debian menu hosed after upgrade
Verfasst am: 16.06.2006, 09:12 Uhr
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joe,
what i can tell you is: never use synaptic for upgrades. its utter crap.
use apt.
greetz
devil |
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Titel: RE: Debian menu hosed after upgrade
Verfasst am: 16.06.2006, 09:17 Uhr
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I usually use update-menus as root and user. Don't know if it works for kde though as I'm on xfce4 and fluxbox most times. |
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Titel: RE: Debian menu hosed after upgrade
Verfasst am: 16.06.2006, 10:02 Uhr
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devil, after my experiences with xorg, I fully agree with you. Maybe I'll see the light one of these days
stryder, thanks for the pointer. I'll give it a shot.
Cheers
Joe |
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Titel: RE: Debian menu hosed after upgrade
Verfasst am: 16.06.2006, 10:07 Uhr
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stryder,
Tried update-menus but it didn't work... Any other ideas? Anybody?
Cheers
Joe |
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Titel: RE: Debian menu hosed after upgrade
Verfasst am: 16.06.2006, 11:10 Uhr
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Titel: RE: Debian menu hosed after upgrade
Verfasst am: 16.06.2006, 11:12 Uhr
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Titel: RE: Debian menu hosed after upgrade
Verfasst am: 16.06.2006, 14:18 Uhr
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Nope, didn't work  |
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Titel: RE: Debian menu hosed after upgrade
Verfasst am: 19.06.2006, 17:08 Uhr
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Spontaneous regeneration...
The Debian menus are back. Don't know how, don't know why. Grateful nonetheless  |
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