A few months ago kde-essential.menu disappeared from my laptop. kcontrol didn't not work. Updating several times and dpkg -i kdebase-data_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6_all.deb did not bring it back.
dpkg --force-confmiss -i kdebase-data_3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6_all.deb did solve the problem: : Configuration file : `/etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/kde-essential.menu', does not : exist on system. : Installing new config file as you request. Reasonable behaviour would be to ask user what to do, if old config file is user edited. dpkg notices that it is user edited (useredited == 1). Since user seems to have deleted it old file, it deletes new file without any questions. Why? configure.c at line 198 } else if (!strcmp(currenthash,NONEXISTENTFLAG) && fc_conff_miss) { fc_conff_miss has value 0, so new config file is thrown away without any questions. Why is missing conf file handled separately from user edited conf file? Restoring deletet file is less dangerous than over writing user edited config file. Re-deleting a file is easier than re-editing it! I don't know why kde-essential.menu disappeared. Perhaps disk full condition when updating. Getting it back was too difficult! - Jukka -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]