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Installed apps won't show on app list #461

Closed golf1487 closed 2 months ago

golf1487 commented 3 months ago

Installed .deb package with double click. but after installing the app, it's not available to launch from app list.

Ticklezz commented 3 months ago

I noticed this also with .deb of firefox.

geckolinux commented 2 months ago

Hi there, we would need a lot more information about this issue in order to properly assess it. At any rate, the app menu system is configured correctly on all SpiralLinux editions, and any issues in that area would either fall into the realm of the .deb packager or the realm of Debian's development/packaging, which SpiralLinux has no control over.

Ticklezz commented 2 months ago

Hi there, we would need a lot more information about this issue in order to properly assess it. At any rate, the app menu system is configured correctly on all SpiralLinux editions, and any issues in that area would either fall into the realm of the .deb packager or the realm of Debian's development/packaging, which SpiralLinux has no control over.

It just hit me, I wonder if it was the menu editor hiding the apps.

Ticklezz commented 2 months ago

Screenshot from 2024-08-20 19-18-49 I see this in menu editor. I just installed the .deb file for firefox and it's not there.

Ticklezz commented 2 months ago

If I try and execute firefox from the terminal it says command not found. If I install the flatpak of firefox it works and installs just fine.

geckolinux commented 2 months ago

A properly designed .deb file for a GUI application should never require manually editing the app menu. At most you might have to logout and login again for the menu system to refresh, but that depends on the desktop environment, which is not specified in this bug report.

The menu editor will definitely create a mess when used improperly as described here. I would suggest that you find all the entries it created by browsing to ~/.local/share/applications/ and sorting the list by recently modified files, and deleting the entries that the menu editor created.

Then, reinstall your Firefox .deb . Logout and login again.

If it still doesn't appear then check what locations the .deb installed its files to by searching for the package you installed in Synaptic and checking the list of installed files under the package's properties. In the case of a Firefox .deb it's probably installed to /opt/ with a .desktop file in /usr/share/applications/ .