How to make an installed application show up in start menu?

[Moltke]

Thanks a lot for taking the time to explain this to me - besides being helpful for icecat, it's also helping me for the future for setting up my system better

You're very welcome [member=6960]Vera[/member] I used to extract files everywhere in my system too till I learnt this method which is like it should be done.

(The executable file was called icecat not icecat-browser so in the 4th line I typed: sudo ln -sf /opt/icecat-browser/icecat /usr/bin/icecat-browser ). Your method was very helpful

That's why I said you just needed to change things accordingly.

Thanks for those instructions. Bookmarked!

You're welcome and glad you found it useful [member=6733]TheDead[/member] 

By the way, wikipedia is a fine source for finding icons when doing this, then use the wget method to download it.