My Software Manager has disappeared (SOLVED)

[Tony.B]

Yesterday I reinstalled LMDE. Don't ask why - long boring story which includes indiscriminate use of the delete key.

Anyway, today, having done all the updates, I wanted to configure the fonts in LibreOffice and in particular remove those in languages I don't yet understand. So I opened up Software Manager, and was happily uninstalling when suddenly it froze. Everything stopped. My mouse-clicks didn't click, so I tried to close Software Manager by Alt+F4 but that didn't work either.

In desperation, I switched off my computer & restarted.

Then I clicked on Menu intending to open up Software Manager again.

• But it's not there.
  • Gone.
    • Help! (please)

[sagirfahmid3]

Reinstall it then. Open the terminal and paste this:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall mintinstall

^^Lol, so many "installs" in that line

[Tony.B]

Reinstall it then. Open the terminal and paste this:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall mintinstall

Thank you so much, sagirfahmid3. I had no idea this "disaster" of mine could be fixed so simply.

I have a tiny complaint, though:

• In Menu, my new Software Manager now appears in the section headed Administration. But it is listed BEFORE Services, so it's not in alphabetical order.

[sagirfahmid3]

Lol how'd that happen? I'm using Mint 9 and the menu editor, alacarte, can organize items. Do they have it in Mint 12?
If not, then you can "sudo apt-get install alacarte" and see if it works.

[Tony.B]

... you can "sudo apt-get install alacarte" and see if it works

Thanks for the idea. I tried that and was informed that the latest version of alacarte was already installed.

But, while I was messing around I accidentally fixed it all by myself:

• Right-clicking on Menu brings up an option to edit the menu, which I did.

Thank you again for the assistance.
Regards
Tony

[sagirfahmid3]

Right-clicking on Menu brings up an option to edit the menu, which I did.

That, my friend, IS alacarte! LOL

[Tony.B]

That, my friend, IS alacarte! LOL

I'm so glad I made you happy

It seems I've got so much to learn.

Cheers,
Tony

[sagirfahmid3]

Oo hope I didn't offend you. I've used Mint now for about a year and a half, still got loads to learn! I like the new adventure
Keep on learning, and see you around the forums! Best way to learn: stick with geeks

[Tony.B]

Of course you didn't offend me

I'm just grateful that you pointed me in the right direction