Update menus debian

The reason to create a dummy directory is that running the dpkg-deb -x command will change the ownership of the directory to root. Also, you should make sure you have the following packages installed before running update-menus :. Now follow the instructions, listed above. Jump to: navigation , search. If a menu entry file is executable, update-menus executes the menu entry file, and uses its stdout to generate the menu database.

Source file: update-menus. Found a problem? See the FAQ. One problem we ran into with menu Many people complained about the fullness of certain submenus, citing scientific studies or personal experience to explain why overfull or underfull submenus are a bad thing. To overcome this, menu At the moment you can only configure how verbose the output of update-menus is, and where it sends the output.

BUGS update-menus may not work properly when run by a normal user, to generate menus for that user.