Updating Menus in KDE

I have installed a number of applications using apt and now want to update my kde menu. I know I can do this manually, but was wondering if there was a way to do this more automatically. I have used the command 'update-menus' at a shell prompt in other distros and seen menu entries that would do this, but can't see how to do this in SuSE 8/2. Any ideas? Thanks.