How to install an application manually into Natty's Application list

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Published on 2011-03-13T22:31:51Z Indexed on 2011/03/14 0:17 UTC
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I am trying to install ZendStudio 8 (Eclipse based) on 11.04 and am kinda stuck at the part were I can get it into the Applications list.

ZendStudio prior to version 8 came with a magic .bin which installed it all no problems, but now it simply comes as a folder all set up to be run as-is. I have copied this folder to /opt/ZendStudio, and I can launch the program using /opt/ZendStudio/ZendStudio but in the Unity Launcher it shows up with a grey box and a big Question Mark as it's icon.

However, I'd like it to be show up in the Applications list so I can search for it and load it like a normal application.

I also want to Pin it to the launcher so it stays there the whole time, and I tried this with running it directly but it didn't work and it didn't load up the application icon.

Any ideas how I can finish the install so it is in my menus etc?

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