I do not understand the debian menu system. Based on what I read in the
manual /usr/doc/menu/html/ch4.html and other sources I took the
following steps as a user (not as root)
1. Created ~/.menu directory
2. in ~/.menu created the following file
?package(local.staroffice): needs="x11" section=Apps/Misc
title="Staroffice" command=/home/tjm1/Office50/bin/soffice"
Your problem is in the first line: "?package(local.staroffice):" ...
if you don't have the package in the ?package(...) section of the menu
declaration installed, then update-menus skips this entry.
the resoning behind this is fairly simple: since debian allows you to
remove a program, but leave all of its configuration files intact, if
update-menus did not check for the package, you'd have the possiblity of
having a lot of "broken" menu items.
I would suggest, then, changing the (local.staroffice) dependancy to
something else, perhaps (for a quick hack) change it to (menu).
A better idea is to use the debian installer package for staroffice...
If anyone can help me to understand the debian menu system I will be
very appreciative. And once I understand the subject I will write
something to be included in the manual. Thank you
this is actually mentioned in the manpage for menufile(5)
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