CentOS

Hi,

in CentOS 7, I could use menulibre, or alacarte to add custom menu items. Unfortunately, that no longer works:

[jwi@sonar ~]$ sudo dnf -y list "*alacarte*"
Last metadata expiration check: 0:03:32 ago on Sat 15 Feb 2020 04:44:35 AM EST.
Error: No matching Packages to list
[jwi@sonar ~]$ sudo dnf -y list "*menulibre*"
Last metadata expiration check: 0:03:35 ago on Sat 15 Feb 2020 04:44:35 AM EST.
Error: No matching Packages to list

Note: epel-release is installed.

Is there any alternative, or a workaround, to achieve my goal?

Thanks,

Jochen

There's kmenuedit in EPEL. It's a KDE application however. And there's always the option of preparing .directory and .desktop files for your menu entries by hand and then installing them with xdg-desktop-menu. You'll probably need to consult the Desktop Menu Specification in this case, too. For subscribers, there's also Red Hat solution.

Menulibre can, indeed, be installed in Centos 8, but they haven't made it easy. It is in the Fedora epel-testing repository. For some reason, in Centos 8 the Applications/System Tools/Software GUI application does not find MenuLibre even when the "Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux - Testing - x86-64" repository is enabled.

Browse to https://centos.pkgs.org/8/epel-testing- ... h.rpm.html and follow the instructions under "Install Howto".

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