Thanks Panu. It doesn't seem work. On 12/8/12, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/08/2012 07:53 AM, jupiter wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Sorry for an off topic subject, I installed an rpm package on CentOS >> 6.2, which requires some configuration before all items on the menu >> can be seen. After configuration, if I install another package, or if >> I reboot the machine, the desktop menu item would be refreshed. Is >> there any command in yum or rpm which can be called to update the >> desktop menu without installing another package or rebooting machine? > > Rpm and yum dont know anything about desktop menus and the like, its up > to individual packages to perform the tasks they need to become usable > in their scriptlets (%post etc). > > Refreshing the desktop menus typically involves invoking some commands > to refresh related caches. I dont recall whether this applies to Centos > 6.x but at least in recent Fedora versions it's typically > 'update-desktop-database' for the menus and 'gtk-update-icon-cache' if > the package adds icons. The other package whose installation makes your > menu item appear is doing these things, check out its scripts to see > what exactly its doing. > > - Panu - > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list > _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
