Hi. sorry it's taken me so long to do this. It's been very busy here. I am also replying to the list, in case someone else has something to add or is having a similar problem.
--- Joost Witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:12:25AM -0800, > Xucaen wrote: > > is /etc/menu/jed: > > > > ?package(jed):needs="text" \ > > section="Apps/Editors" \ > > title="jed" \ > > command="/usr/bin/jed" > > Looks fine to me. Do you hava a `jed' package > installed > (does `dpkg -l jed' give a line that starts > with `i'?). If not, > then you should use something like > `?package(local.jed):...'. > Here is my output from dpkg -l jed and dpkg -l xjed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l jed Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii jed 0.99.9-14 Editor for programmers. (textmode version) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l xjed Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii xjed 0.99.9-14 Editor for programmers. (x11 version) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > Also, I assume the file-permissions are OK (not > executable, and > readable). > Here is my /etc/menu directory: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/menu$ ls -l total 20 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 397 Jan 22 2000 README -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 127 Jan 25 12:07 aim -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 97 Jan 30 08:12 jed -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 116 Jan 30 07:30 mc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103 Jan 30 07:30 xjed [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/menu$ if you notice, I have a menu file called aim, which does indeed work, the other three don't work. > > when I run update-menus (as root) it doesn't > add > > You can try `update-menus -v' or `update-menus > -d', to see more > output. (with -d, IIRC, you should see > /etc/menu/jed come by). I tried update-menus -d. There is too much output to capture, but from what I am able to see it never processes etc/menu/jed or /etc/menu/xjed (but how can that be?) > > If that doesn't work, please email me. Maybe it > is a bug in the menu > package. > > Thanks, > joostje > Let me know if this information was helpful. thanks!! xucaen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
