Update-menus normally takes only a minute or so to run. What you want to do
is hit <Enter> after it _appears_ to hang. I don't know why this is (sigh...)
M.
On Sunday 04 March 2001 07:50, Collins Richey wrote:
> On Sunday 04 March 2001 06:09, you wrote:
> > On Saturday 03 March 2001 09:19 pm, Collins Richey wrote:
> > > > create a directory to d/l the rpms to, then paste the URL with
> > > > *.rpms added into nt (Webdownloader) or your favorite other. eg,
> > > > ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake-devel/unsupported/i586/k
> > > >de -2.1 /*.rpm When the d/l is complete, cd to that dir, su to root
> > > > and 'rpm -Uvh *'
> > >
> > > I followed these instructions, but there is more.
> > >
> > > 4. The panel is present, but most of the icons have the gearwheel
> > > (generic icon) instead of the expected icon.
> >
> > run 'rpm --rebuilddb' and 'update-menus -v'
>
> Yep, that worked, at least partially. The KDE panel now has the
> appropriate icons.
>
> Two further questions:
>
> 1. Where would I RTFM to know that this was needed?
> 2. rebuilddb is successful, but update menus goes into a wait after
> displaying the message that it is rebuilding the enlightenment menus.
> Since I don't really care about enlightenment, I CTL-C'd out of the update
> after about 20 minutes of no activity.
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Michael O'Henly
TENZO Design
