Comments on: How to make your application appear in the Add/Remove tool (gnome-app-install)

By: ribot

ribot — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:56:58 +0000

Hi!
Too bad Vadim P didn’t remove it from the wiki yet. If you add this line “sudo update-app-install -d ” it seems like all files disappear. To fix this, do “sudo update-app-install” and wait for the process.

By: naren

naren — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:11:47 +0000

Dear All,
Accidentally I deleted Add/Remove tool from main menu settings.Now I am not able to restore this icon in the application menu. Anybody help me to appear again this launcher on same place.
Regards
Naren

By: Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:43:43 +0000

Did you run “sudo update-app-install”? (also, ignore the -d, it does something different as I found out and I’ll remove it from the wiki)

By: Dave Stikkolorum

Dave Stikkolorum — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:19:56 +0000

For me this did not work on Ubuntu (8.04 Hardy) Do you have an other suggestion?

By: Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:19:40 +0000

@Ell: The script here is supposed to do the crawling and auto-add things. I'll add that to the original guide.

By: ell

ell — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:00:41 +0000

hi, say for example a user adds a PPA repo and those packages in that repo had .desktop files and with X-AppInstall-Package entries on it. will the application be visible in add/remove after he apt-get update?