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]] 
