FC3: KDE Applications menu is empty [SOLVED]

[Patrick Boutilier]

sz beam wrote:
> On Monday 15 November 2004 07:05 am, sz beam wrote:
> 
>>So in short, KDE seems to be unable to find any applications at all 
> 
> for 
> 
>>the menus. 
>>
>>Oh and, on this machine, under FC2, I'd upgraded KDE using the 
> 
> packages 
> 
>>from http://kde-redhat.sf.net/ to kdebase-3.2.3-2.0.1.kde, etc. - the 
>>other one, which works fine, had the default Fedora updates package, 
>>whatever that was.
> 
> 
> Sorry, should have looked more closely at the kde-redhat ML archives.
> 
> # rm -rf /var/tmp/kdecache-*
> # rpm -V redhat-menus
> 
> shows that /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu is missing. I copied this 
> file over from another FC3 system and now menus and opening files works 
> per normal. Though amazingly the contents of the menus on the two 
> systems are now completely different *shrug*

I had the same problem and just did:

rpm -Uvh --force redhat-menus

>