Linux - Newbie This Linux forum is for members that are new to Linux.
Just starting out and have a question?
If it is not in the man pages or the how-to's this is the place! |
Notices |
Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org, a friendly and active Linux Community.
You are currently viewing LQ as a guest. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. Registration is quick, simple and absolutely free. Join our community today!
Note that registered members see fewer ads, and ContentLink is completely disabled once you log in.
Are you new to LinuxQuestions.org? Visit the following links:
Site Howto |
Site FAQ |
Sitemap |
Register Now
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us. If you need to reset your password, click here.
Having a problem logging in? Please visit this page to clear all LQ-related cookies.
Get a virtual cloud desktop with the Linux distro that you want in less than five minutes with Shells! With over 10 pre-installed distros to choose from, the worry-free installation life is here! Whether you are a digital nomad or just looking for flexibility, Shells can put your Linux machine on the device that you want to use.
Exclusive for LQ members, get up to 45% off per month. Click here for more info.
|
 |
01-16-2017, 09:43 PM
|
#1
|
Member
Registered: Nov 2016
Location: Philadelphia, Pa
Distribution: DebIan, Knoppix.
Posts: 66
Rep: 
|
Missing applications
Hi everybody,
I have a puzzle, a couple of apps called gparted and disks has dropped from the application launcher menu. Apper says it is installed. I running DebIan 8.6.0 on a Hp Elitebook 8730w.
Any ideas?
Mike
|
|
|
01-16-2017, 10:40 PM
|
#2
|
Member
Registered: Dec 2016
Distribution: arch
Posts: 668
Rep: 
|
Have you tried launching from command line? It's been a while since I used Debian but I believe
Code:
dpkg -l | grep packagename
would confirm whether it's installed or not.
If not just reinstall
|
|
|
01-16-2017, 11:44 PM
|
#3
|
Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2010
Posts: 2,291
|
have you tried:
whereis <app_name>
or if locate is installed try:
locate -b <app_name>
|
|
|
01-17-2017, 01:45 AM
|
#4
|
LQ Guru
Registered: Mar 2016
Location: Harrow, UK
Distribution: LFS, AntiX, Slackware
Posts: 8,423
|
What is installed and what you find on your menu are two different things. You usually have a lot more programs installed than your menu shows you. In any case, most desktops have a menu-editing utility. If you want quick access to these tools, you can edit them back in.
|
|
|
01-18-2017, 12:21 AM
|
#5
|
Member
Registered: Jun 2016
Distribution: any&all, in VBox; Ol'UnixCLI; NO GUI resources
Posts: 999
|
Try this web-research (as a starting point, for clues as to what may have happened & be needed)
Quote:
debian remove application from launcher menu
|
(ubuntu is based on debian, so that info may be related) Best wishes! Let us know.
|
|
|
01-27-2017, 12:17 AM
|
#6
|
Member
Registered: Nov 2016
Location: Philadelphia, Pa
Distribution: DebIan, Knoppix.
Posts: 66
Original Poster
Rep: 
|
Hi everybody,
I'm sorry for the delay in my response. I've tried all of the above to no avail. It says gdisk is installed but it's nowhere to be seen.
Thanks again,
Mike
|
|
|
01-27-2017, 12:29 AM
|
#7
|
LQ Addict
Registered: Mar 2012
Location: Hungary
Distribution: debian/ubuntu/suse ...
Posts: 24,671
|
Probably this helps:
if you have gnome you need to click on "show application" (this is the last icon on the bottom). There will be a "type to search" field where you can enter gparted. Right click, add to favorites.
|
|
|
01-27-2017, 07:21 AM
|
#8
|
LQ Guru
Registered: Sep 2013
Location: Somewhere in my head.
Distribution: Slackware (15 current), Slack15, Ubuntu studio, MX Linux, FreeBSD 13.1, WIn10
Posts: 10,342
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by ObsoleteMan
Hi everybody,
I'm sorry for the delay in my response. I've tried all of the above to no avail. It says gdisk is installed but it's nowhere to be seen.
Thanks again,
Mike
|
if you can find the executable in the bin then look in /usr/share/applications to see if it has a desktop file so it will show up in your menu, if no then create one for it.
copy one then change its name to the name of the program you're going to make it for. then open it up in a editor using root privileges, and change everything that needs to be changed so it will work. simple yes?
But is not gdisk just a command line app?
Code:
sudo find / -type f -name gdisk
or
sudo find / -type f -name gdisk*
that will find it
|
|
|
01-28-2017, 12:11 AM
|
#9
|
Member
Registered: Nov 2016
Location: Philadelphia, Pa
Distribution: DebIan, Knoppix.
Posts: 66
Original Poster
Rep: 
|
I ran the above code and here is the return:
root@Debian:/home/michael# find / -type f -name gdisk
/sbin/gdisk
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/gdisk
/usr/share/doc-base/gdisk
The /usr/share/doc-base/gdisk part is a document that says: Document: gdisk
Title: Gdisk manuals
Author: Roderick W. Smith
Abstract: Manuals for cgdisk, fixparts, gdisk and sgdisk
Section: System/Administration
Format: HTML
Index: /usr/share/doc/gdisk/index.html
Files: /usr/share/doc/gdisk/*.html
The lintain part says  ocument: lintian
Title: Lintian User's Manual
Author: Christian Schwarz, Richard Braakman, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Abstract: This manual describes Lintian, the Debian package checker.
Section: Debian
Format: HTML
Index: /usr/share/doc/lintian/lintian.html/index.html
Files: /usr/share/doc/lintian/lintian.html/*.html
Format: text
Files: /usr/share/doc/lintian/lintian.txt.gz
The DebIan site says nothing about lintain at all.
By the way, I'm running KDE
Thanks for any ideas
Mike
|
|
|
01-28-2017, 04:43 AM
|
#10
|
LQ Addict
Registered: Dec 2013
Posts: 19,872
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by ObsoleteMan
I've tried all of the above to no avail. It says gdisk is installed but it's nowhere to be seen.
|
maybe it's been moved to a different submenu and/or renamed.
maybe it was a conscious decision to remove it from the menus completely because these are potentially harmful apps.
who knows what DE developers are up to in common, and KDE in particular...
if you're still confused, do this:
Code:
apt search nginx|grep installed
(replace "nginx" with whatever you want to search for, e.g. gparted or disks)
Code:
apt search nginx|grep installed|cut -d/ -f1| while read line; do dpkg -L "$line"|grep bin; done
(replace "nginx" with whatever you want to search for, e.g. gparted or disks)
|
|
|
01-28-2017, 05:48 AM
|
#11
|
LQ Veteran
Registered: Jan 2011
Location: Abingdon, VA
Distribution: Catalina
Posts: 9,374
Rep: 
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by BW-userx
Code:
sudo find / -type f -name gdisk
or
sudo find / -type f -name gdisk*
that will find it
|
Something. Not that.
OP: It's called gnome-disks, try it in Alt+F2.
same for gparted
terminal > gparted
|
|
|
01-28-2017, 07:28 AM
|
#12
|
LQ Guru
Registered: Sep 2013
Location: Somewhere in my head.
Distribution: Slackware (15 current), Slack15, Ubuntu studio, MX Linux, FreeBSD 13.1, WIn10
Posts: 10,342
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Habitual
Something. Not that.
OP: It's called gnome-disks, try it in Alt+F2.
same for gparted
terminal > gparted
|
now I am wondering where did I get the idea it was about "gdisk" but the same find method would apply, if just typing gnome-disks in the launcher or command line does not work.
|
|
|
01-28-2017, 08:38 AM
|
#13
|
Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2003
Distribution: debian
Posts: 4,137
|
$ sudo apt-get install menu
$ sudo update-menus
$ sudo apt-get install gpart
$ sudo apt-get install gparted
But I don't use a wm with menus. Baring rare times that I get less lazy and use dmenu. Full circle from a certain pov as I stopped using gentoo because it didn't update menus, or build them at all, for my non-mainstream wm at that time (IceWM).
I tend to use apt-file to figure these things out.
$ apt-file list gpart | grep -i menu
gparted: /usr/share/menu/gparted
Which means that gpart lacks the /usr/share/menu/ item for a menu entry. So wont be grabbed by update-menus. You can create that entry though.
$ cat /usr/share/menu/gparted
Applications -> System -> Administration -> Gnome partition editor
For debian jessie.
|
|
|
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 10:39 AM.
|
LinuxQuestions.org is looking for people interested in writing
Editorials, Articles, Reviews, and more. If you'd like to contribute
content, let us know.
|
Latest Threads
LQ News
|
|