> It seems I would have to got to /etc/alternatives and rip it up and > point it over by hand. That confused me too when I first tried debian. But then I learned that the 'debian way' is to use update-alternatives to manage the alternatives links. update-alternatives --display awk update-alternatives --display awk awk - status is auto. link currently points to /usr/bin/mawk /usr/bin/mawk - priority 20 slave nawk: /usr/bin/mawk slave awk.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/mawk.1.gz slave nawk.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/mawk.1.gz /usr/bin/gawk - priority 10 slave nawk: /usr/bin/gawk slave awk.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/gawk.1.gz slave nawk.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/gawk.1.gz Current `best' version is /usr/bin/mawk. And you can use 'update-alternatives --config genericname' to manually switch from one to another of an alternative generic thing like 'editor' and such. And knowing how this works now if you were to remove mawk then the alternatives would automatically be switched to gawk. Therefore instead of running 'update-alternatives --config awk' I would remove it instead. apt-get remove mawk However, I agree that gawk should be higher rated than mawk and that the priorities are wrong for those packages. The gawk priority should be rated higher so that it is the preferred alternative if installed. A bug report specific to the priority of gawk should be filed. Bob
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