| On update-alternatives under Debian | ||
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 | Part X. Debian (sometimes also Ubuntu) |  |
| On update-alternatives under Debian | ||
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| | Part X. Debian (sometimes also Ubuntu) | |
July 2007
Under Debian, /etc/alternatives
holds links to programs for which several alternatives are available and installed.
These links can be maintained automatically or by hand.
It may happen (as with sun-java6-bin from Etch-Backports) that a program creates links there, but when it is removed, the links remain and dangle.
This can be remedied by finding the dangling links
and running update-alternatives --auto
on them, like this:
find -L /etc/alternatives/ -type l -lname \*java-6-sun\* -exec basename {} \;|xargs -i update-alternatives --auto {}