Wine is not in my Application's Menu

amy

I had wine on my laptop and several windows apps installed.
They all automatically (i.e. no configuration on my part) appeared under Applications gt; Wine gt; (..programs...).

I uninstalled wine via 'sudo apt-get --purge remove wine' and deleted the .wine directory.
I noticed that, after a reboot, those programs were STILL in my Applications menu, so I went
into alacarte and deleted the wine entry.

Now, I'd like to re-install wine. So I went to Applications gt; Addremove and loaded it up.
I installed a couple of windows apps (the same ones I had before) with wine, but nothing shows up in my applications Window.

I tried a 'sudo updatedb' and then rebooted, but still no dice.

I thought about going back into alacarte and adding wine, but that wouldn't bring up all of the sub-programs.

Any ideas on how to get everything to appear again in my applications menu?

Best,
Tom

*bump*

The command updatedb builds an index you can use to search for files on your hard disk using the command locate, so I don't think that would help in this case.

Anyways the following should solve your problem.

Open ~/.config/menus/applications.menu in your favorite text editor and search for the following:

Code:
lt;Namegt;wine-winelt;/Namegt;
lt;Deleted/gt;
Remove the lt;Deleted/gt; tag and the wine menu should reappear in your applications menu.

That worked perfectly.
Thank you.