Re: mozilla + mutt

[hendrik@topoi.pooq.com]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:03:17PM -0500, Andrew Cady wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:51:43PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > On (11/01/06 21:01), mess-mate wrote:
> > > Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> wrote:
> > > I've come in late on this but have you looked at /etc/alternatives
> > > you symlink the line:
> > | www-browser to something link
> > > /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox
> > > | 
> > > I did :( /usr/bin/mozilla is a link to /etc/alternatives/mozilla
> > 
> > I may be wrong but this wouldn't do it.  You need to link your
> > preferred browser to www-browser
> > 
> >  www-browser -> /usr/bin/mozilla
> 
> Of course, this works, but it is not LHS-compatible, and so Debian
> will not do it automatically.  Rather, the Debian convention (which
> update-alternatives enforces) is to link /usr/bin/www-browser to
> /etc/alternatives/www-browser always.  /etc/alternatives/www-browser is
> another symbolic link, which the administrator can point to mozilla, or
> whatever.  (This can and should be done through update-alternatives(8)

My sarge system seems not to hace /usr/bin/www-browser or
/etc/alternatives/www-browser.
Instead, it has
 /usr/bin/x-www-browser -> /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser

-- hendrik