On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 11:36:00PM +0200, Christoph Martin uttered:
>
> The solution of the problem is not as easy as patching xdvi to call
> xdvi.real because auf update-alternatives.
>
Ahhh.
> Can you please verify some things for me to find out about the
> problem:
>
> Please run:
>
> update-alternatives --display xdvi.bin
>
broken:~# update-alternatives --display xdvi.bin
xdvi.bin - status is manual.
link currently points to /usr/bin/xdvi.real
/usr/bin/xdvi.real - priority 30
Current `best' version is /usr/bin/xdvi.real.
> ls -l /etc/alternatives/xdvi.bin /usr/bin/xdvi* /usr/X11R6/bin/xdvi*
>
broken:~# ls -l /etc/alternatives/xdvi.bin /usr/bin/xdvi*
/usr/X11R6/bin/xdvi*
ls: /usr/X11R6/bin/xdvi*: No such file or directory
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 May 18 06:01
/etc/alternatives/xdvi.bin -> /usr/bin/xdvi.real
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2259 Jun 7 18:05 /usr/bin/xdvi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 140316 Jun 4 03:45 /usr/bin/xdvi.real
> Also please telle me if you made a new install or if you did an
> upgrade from a previous (which?) version .
>
That's a tough one.
I think it was from 1.0.3 (?) to 1.0.7. I'm not quite sure at all, unfort.
> This is what should have happened:
>
> old-prerm should have removed the alternatives in X11R6/bin and
> new-postinst should have installed new alternatives in bin.
>
Ahhhh, moving out of X11R6/bin to bin.
> Christoph
>
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Steve
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