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install-menu(1)		    Debian GNU/Linux manual	       install-menu(1)

NAME
       install-menu  - Process a menu method and generate the menu files for a
       window manager or a menu-aware application.

DESCRIPTION
       update-menus(1) computes the list of menu entries and passes it in turn
       to  the	menu methods in /etc/menu-methods/. The task of a menu methods
       is to generate menus for a specific window manager.  install-menu  pro‐
       vides  a	 generic and customizable way to do that. The documentation of
       the install-menu definition language is available in  the  Debian  Menu
       manual, a local copy being available in /usr/share/doc/menu/html.

SYNOPSIS
       install-menu [-vh] [--remove] <menu-method>

       Read menu entries from stdin in update-menus --stdout format and gener‐
       ate menu files using the specified menu-method.

       Normally used in menu method scripts as #! /usr/bin/install-menu.

OPTIONS
       -h,--help
	      Show the help message and exit.

       --remove
	      Remove the menu files instead of generating them.

       -v,--verbose
	      Output messages about what the program is doing.

COPYING
       install-menu is distributed under the term of the  GNU  General	Public
       License version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

AUTHOR
       Written	by  Joost  Witteveen  <joostje@debian.org>.  Now maintained by
       Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>.

SEE ALSO
       update-menus(1), menufile(5), /usr/share/doc/menu/html

Debian Project		       28 November 2005		       install-menu(1)
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