What steps will reproduce the problem? apt-get install git-annex What is the expected output? a menu item at kde or gnome at internet> Git Annex , as http://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/ shows. What do you see instead? no menu item. What version of git-annex are you using? Version: 1:1.7.10.4-1+wheezy1 On what operating system? Wheezy Also I just installed git-annex on a squeeze system and had the same result. same with ubuntu precise 12.04 > git-annex ships a /usr/share/applications/git-annex.desktop > file that provies the menu item. But there has never been a version > 1.7.10. I suspect this is user error; installing a version of git-annex > that predates the git-annex assistant and expecting it to have the > assistant and its menu item. [[done]] --[[Joey]]