Hi from Venezuela, and a worrying issue

[Member Liacchin]

Hello! I’ve been using antiX since may, and until now I hadn’t had any issue.
But today, after some shutdowns due to electrical problem and an update, I’ve noticed that all software that I have installed since I installed antiX doesn’t appear in menu. The programs are installed and I can execute them from terminal, but no matter the desktop they don’t appear in menu.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Hi. Which programs have you installed and which version of antiX?

You could try this in a terminal

sudo desktop-menu --write-out-global

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

[Member Liacchin]

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I have antiX 19.2, 32 bits, and I installed a lot of software:. Some extra browsers (Vivaldo, Palemoon, Chromium and Falkon), the dock Plank, some client players for MPD, Calibre from repos, a VCN client, the solitaire package from the software installer, GIMP, some apps from debs packages, one of these does appear appear in the Personal submenu, and some other that escapes me.

I tried the command you suggested, and printed out this output

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/desktop-menu", line 29, in <module>
    import xdg.Menu
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'xdg' 

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Are you using default stable or testing/sid repos?

inxi -r in a terminal will reveal all

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[Member Liacchin]

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This is the output of inxi -r in my terminal

Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
  1: deb http://mirror.cedia.org.ec/mx-workspace/antix/buster/ buster main nonfree nosystemd
  2: deb http://mirror.cedia.org.ec/mx-workspace/antix/testing/ testing nosystemd nonfree main
  3: deb http://mirror.cedia.org.ec/mx-workspace/antix/sid/ sid nosystemd nonfree main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/buster-backports.list 
  1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-backports main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
  2: deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list 
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list 
  1: deb http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main

Something in the repos may be interfering with my installed software not appearing in the applications menu? Should I reinstall distro?

[Member Liacchin]

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inxi -r gave me this output

Repos:
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
  1: deb http://mirror.cedia.org.ec/mx-workspace/antix/buster/ buster main nonfree nosystemd
  2: deb http://mirror.cedia.org.ec/mx-workspace/antix/testing/ testing nosystemd nonfree main
  3: deb http://mirror.cedia.org.ec/mx-workspace/antix/sid/ sid nosystemd nonfree main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/buster-backports.list 
  1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-backports main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
  2: deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list 
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list 
  1: deb http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main

Should I reinstall distro and not activale unestable repos?

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Yes start again since you have a Frankenstein-antiX.
Only use default stable/buster repos unless you know exactly what you are doing.

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[Member Dzhigit]

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You weren’t supposed to uncomment all of those repos, only the one you need. If you’re not sure, use stable, which is currently called buster. As for that error, I believe I had the same issue on antiX-net yesterday and the solution was to install the package python-xdg.

[Member oops]

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Hello,
… And when your system will be stable again, I suggest you to install and use timeshift (for a backup, timeshift-launcher).

https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift/

“Timeshift for Linux is an application that provides functionality similar to the System Restore feature in Windows and the Time Machine tool in Mac OS. Timeshift protects your system by taking incremental snapshots of the file system at regular intervals. These snapshots can be restored at a later date to undo all changes to the system….”

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