Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 03:08:11PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote:
> The other way is the debian alternatives system. You can have multiple
> versions of a tool, such as gcc-2.95.4, gcc-3.3, etc, but one gets called
> by the generic name of "gcc".
> 
> man update-alternatives
> 
> rm /usr/bin/python
> rm /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz
> 
> ln -s /etc/alternatives/pythonbin /usr/bin/python
> ln -s /etc/alternatives/pythonman.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz
> 
> update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python pythonbin /usr/bin/python2.2 
> 20 \
>                     --slave /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz pythonman.1.gz 
>                     /usr/share/man/man1/python2.2.1.gz

That won't be preserved across package upgrades.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]