How to Install MenuLibre on Ubuntu 17.04

To Install MenuLibre on Ubuntu 17.04

MenuLibre is an advanced menu editor built with a clean and easy-to-use interface. It helps you to change how your installed apps are controlled, create new launchers with ease and modify items on your desktop. It is to be noted that even lightweight systems can benefit from the options available on MenuLibre. It is very simple to install MenuLibre on Ubuntu 17.04 and this article covers the ground on the same process.

Installing MenuLibre

One of the most important things to do before you begin with the installation of MenuLibre on your Ubuntu machine is to add all the necessary dependencies in your machine.

root@linuxhelp:~# add-apt-repository ppa:menulibre-dev/daily
 Daily builds of MenuLibre
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~menulibre-dev/+archive/ubuntu/daily
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keybox ' /tmp/tmpe2_hkhc4/pubring.gpg'  created
gpg: /tmp/tmpe2_hkhc4/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key FE6B20ECA7AD98A1: public key " Launchpad PPA for MenuLibre Developers"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1
OK

After adding the dependency packages, make sure you update your machine by executing the apt-get update command as follows.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kasra-mp/ubuntu-indicator-weather/ubuntu zesty InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security InRelease               
Hit:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/menulibre-dev/daily/ubuntu zesty InRelease
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty InRelease                
Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates InRelease
Hit:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

Now is the time to install MenuLibre.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install menulibre
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  python-cairo python-gi python-gobject-2 python-gtk2 python-retrying
  python-six
Use ' apt autoremove'  to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  menulibre
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 286 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/138 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,403 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package menulibre.
(Reading database ... 170749 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../menulibre_201710290231~ubuntu17.04.1_all.deb ...
Unpacking menulibre (201710290231~ubuntu17.04.1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3+17.04.20170406-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Setting up menulibre (201710290231~ubuntu17.04.1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-1) ...

We are through with the installation, in order to launch the application, you should go to your Ubuntu dashboard and type the name of the application and its icon gets displayed on your screen. Click on it to open it.

The application opens and it resembles the one present on the following image.

With this, the installation of MenuLibre on Ubuntu comes to an end.