> 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 <thorntreeh...@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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
