[Solved] Mint 19: Installed app not showing up in Start Menu

[jomama]

What on God's Green Earth?

I had qbittorrent installed and running fine on my system. Then today an update showed up in the Update Manager. I went ahead with it. Since then, I can't find the app in the Menu. It's not listed there. It shows up as installed in Synaptic Package Manager, and I even reinstalled it but nothing doing. What's going on?

[all41]

What on God's Green Earth?

I had qbittorrent installed and running fine on my system. Then today an update showed up in the Update Manager. I went ahead with it. Since then, I can't find the app in the Menu. It's not listed there. It shows up as installed in Synaptic Package Manager, and I even reinstalled it but nothing doing. What's going on?

I have not been able to duplicate this with repository qbittorrent in any desktop. Please say more regarding your system and how you installed qbittorrent.
Please post the terminal results of:

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inxi -S

[jomama]

Thank you, all41.

Here's the terminal output for inxi -S:

jonmun@desktop-linux:~$ inxi -S
System: Host: desktop-linux Kernel: 4.15.0-32-generic x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: Cinnamon 3.8.8 Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara
jonmun@desktop-linux:~$


I initially installed qbittorrent from inside Synaptic. It ran fine. Then I updated it to today using the Update Manager. That's when the problem began. I have since completely uninstalled it (from Synaptic) and reinstalled it, but the problem still persists. The only way I can launch qbittorrent now is from inside Software Manager.

[all41]

Strange. I installed qbittorrent in all 3 Mint desktops to try to duplicate your situation, and afterward installed every update
offered in Update Manager. After reboot the qbittorrent icon was still in the menu Applications/Internet.

The path to the executable is /usr/bin/qbittorrent and you can make a desktop launcher or add it back to the menu with that as the command.
I double checked Cinnamon just now and I still have the menu launcher after reboot.
Can't imagine how you lost it.

[MrEen]

Hi jomama.

Have you rebooted at all since this started? Sometimes, that'll kick out those damn gremlins.

[all41]

So here is a plan of approach for now.
Right-click an empty spot on the desktop and choose 'Create a new launcher here'
Name it Qbittorrent
in the Command field enter '/usr/bin/qbittorrent' (without quotes)
Click OK
You will be asked to add to menu, click Yes
That should get your launcher back

[jomama]

Hi jomama.

Have you rebooted at all since this started? Sometimes, that'll kick out those damn gremlins.

Yeah, I did reboot but it didn't help. I thought Windows was the only OS that needed exorcised with a reboot? LOL.

[jomama]

So here is a plan of approach for now.
Right-click an empty spot on the desktop and choose 'Create a new launcher here'
Name it Qbittorrent
in the Command field enter '/usr/bin/qbittorrent' (without quotes)
Click OK
You will be asked to add to menu, click Yes
That should get your launcher back

DUDE! Thank you very much! That did the trick. I have my launcher back!

[all41]

You're welcome--glad to help.
When you encounter installations which provide no menu icon you can type into a terminal:
as in this example

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which qbittorrent

That will return the path to the executable, and that path can be entered into the Command field of a launcher.
Cheers

[jomama]

You're welcome--glad to help.
When you encounter installations which provide no menu icon you can type into a terminal:
as in this example

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which qbittorrent

That will return the path to the executable, and that path can be entered into the Command field of a launcher.
Cheers

Thank you for the lesson. I'm new to Linux, as you can tell, so your help is much appreciated! Cheers.

[all41]

You're welcome--glad to help.
When you encounter installations which provide no menu icon you can type into a terminal:
as in this example

Code: Select all

which qbittorrent

That will return the path to the executable, and that path can be entered into the Command field of a launcher.
Cheers

Thank you for the lesson. I'm new to Linux, as you can tell, so your help is much appreciated! Cheers.

Hang in there.
Good that you presented your problem to the forum for a solution, plus thumbs up for correct form by completing your post
with [Solved] to help others.
You will do well.