Do installed apps appear on the menu - anywhere?

[Deke]

System: Host: mx Kernel: 4.19.0-5-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
Distro: MX-18.3_x64 Continuum May 26 2019

This is me, new to MX but, not Linux. I was a tester for Ultimate Edition for a while but, it has lost it's way as far as I'm concerned and have stumbled across MX. I must admit that at first glance it works well with all my kit on this laptop (I haven't tried it on others yet). All except my NVidia card. I am not going to bother trying the driver because it never works and leaves me needing to reinstall the system as the quickest resource to getting back the system. Anyways, I digress.
The WiFi 'works' at install. That's a bonus and something the Ubuntu team could learn from. I was on Ubuntu Mate followed by Lubuntu (which I have used very successfully in the past) but, both had no WiFi readyness at install and both lost my Windows from GRUB.
Unfortunately, GRUB has still not added a Windows menu entry but, it was detected at install so I have high hopes that a manual menu entry will do the job this time. I was using Linux Mint quite well before all this recent disaster but, both of my laptops would take an absolute age to reboot if I had them running non-stop for say a few days or more - I am doing a lot of work copying my dvd collection. Hence, another reason that I am now with MX. I have to laugh because I haven't installed and used either makeMKV not Handbrake yet. I wouldn't foresee any problems though.

Main reason I am here just now:-
I installed Google Chrome, apparently successfully from the 'Popular Apps' but, it is not showing in any menu.
Any ideas folks, have I missed something.
I have years of experience with Linux and without having to resort to finding how to place the app on a menu myself - I thought I'd ask you kind knowledgeable people first.

Thanks in advance.

[JayM]

Please run Quick System Info then just right-click/paste in a reply. No need to copy/paste, Quick System Info already copies it for you and pre-formats it for posting in the forum. Thanks.

Also,

[Huckleberry Finn]

Unfortunately, GRUB has still not added a Windows menu entry

Hi Deke, Welcome.

Just

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sudo update-grub

when running on MX.. (That happened to another user last week, and solved ) :)

[dolphin_oracle]

As for chrome, .check to see if google-chrome actually installed.

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apt-cache policy google-chrome-stable 

will tell

***edit*** edited to reflect m_frank's perfectly correct correction to the package name

[m_frank]

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$ apt-cache policy google-chrome
google-chrome:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:

I think we need to do: apt-cache policy google-chrome-*

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$ apt-cache policy google-chrome-*
google-chrome-unstable:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 78.0.3904.9-1
  Version table:
     78.0.3904.9-1 500
        500 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable/main amd64 Packages
google-chrome-beta:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 77.0.3865.75-1
  Version table:
     77.0.3865.75-1 500
        500 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable/main amd64 Packages
google-chrome-stable:
  Installed: 77.0.3865.75-1
  Candidate: 77.0.3865.75-1
  Version table:
 *** 77.0.3865.75-1 500
        500 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Or try: apt list google-chrome*

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$ apt list google-chrome*
Listing... Done
google-chrome-beta/stable 77.0.3865.75-1 amd64
google-chrome-stable/stable,now 77.0.3865.75-1 amd64 [installed]
google-chrome-unstable/stable 78.0.3904.9-1 amd64

Also possible: apt search google-chrome

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$ apt search google-chrome
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
google-chrome-beta/stable 77.0.3865.75-1 amd64
  The web browser from Google

google-chrome-stable/stable,now 77.0.3865.75-1 amd64 [installed]
  The web browser from Google

google-chrome-unstable/stable 78.0.3904.9-1 amd64
  The web browser from Google

MXPI installs google-chrome-stable

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Package info -- Google Chrome
  Latest Google Chrome browser (stable)
  Packages to be installed: google-chrome-stable

[Deke]

Thanks, I did search the forum but, had no results. Of course my search string may have been off...
I'll have a look when I get a moment. Busy trying to restore Windows entry in GRUB after Ubuntu Mate installer messed things up.

[Stevo]

To answer the question in the thread's title: yes, Chrome should appear in the "Internet" menu section once it's installed. Other programs are also supposed to appear, as long as they install a .desktop file in /usr/share/applications.

[Huckleberry Finn]

after Ubuntu Mate installer messed things up.

You can do that (update -grub) also on U. Mate .. (In fact, at where grub is installed currently)

Or use MX Tools => MX Boot Repair and choose which partition (MX or Ubuntu etc..) you like , grub to be installed on .

(In case MX Boot Repair displays an error, you can first "dd zero" "the first 446 bytes" only , then start MX Boot Repair again .. Then it won't say "there's already a newer version of Grub installed" or similar, and will just do what you say :) ..)