Bug#438551: xdvi doesn't work

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Andreas Degert <ad@papyrus-gmbh.de> wrote:

> xdvi wants to use xdvi.bin which is not included in the package.
> Symlinking from xdvi.bin to xdvi-xaw.bin in /usr/bin makes it work.

The symlink is supposed to go this way:

/usr/bin/xdvi.bin -> /etc/alternatives/xdvi.bin
/etc/alternatives/xdvi.bin -> /usr/bin/xdvi-xaw.bin

(unless you have one of the far-eastern language support packages
installed), and these symlinks are generated by update-alternatives.
What is the output on your system of

update-alternatives --display xdvi.bin
update-alternatives --config xdvi.bin

(run as root)?

Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)