I’ve been a casual user of Ubuntu Linux for about a year and a half now, and really enjoy it’s simplicity and ease of use. When showing my computer science students a linux distribution, I inevitably choose the Ubuntu LiveCD. One small annoyance is that the menu’s do not auto-update when you install new software. This causes folks used to Windows a bit of angst. Just so I don’t forget it again, here is how to “rebuild” your menus after using Synaptic to install new software.
- open Synaptic, and install ‘menu’
- from the command line, run ‘update-menus’ to rebuild your menu
