Problems with Xboard

[Colin Paul Adams]

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> writes:

    Paul> On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 08:50 +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
    >> After upgrading to FC4, Xboard could no longer start gnuchess
    >> (it couldn't find libreadline.so.4).  So I yum upgraded
    >> gnuchess and xboard.  But now, there is no longer an rntey in
    >> the GNOME Games Menu.  I did find a file
    >> /usr/share/applications/fedora-xboard.desktop, but I don't know
    >> how to make use of this.

    Paul> Try this:

    Paul> # update-desktop-database

    Paul> Does a menu item appear after doing that, or after logging
    Paul> out and back in?

If I do it from root, then No and No.

If I try from my user session, I get:

No directories in update-desktop-database search path could be processed and updated.

-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire