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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
 
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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
 
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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
 
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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 
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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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