Re: update-alternates

[Holger Levsen <debian@layer-acht.org>]

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Hi,

On Thursday 23 December 2004 01:56, Randolph Kahle wrote:
> I am doing a fresh install of Debian and I following instructions to
> install Java.
>
> The instructions tell me to use the program "update-alternates". It is
> not installed on my machine and I've done a search of the Debian web
> site and I cannot figure out which apt package to install to get this
> command.

I guess you or the instructions :) mean "update-alternatives" which is part of 
the dpkg-package.

You can use apt-file (package apt-file) to search for files in all debian 
packages in your sources.lists:

apt-file update
apt-file search update-alternates  # results in no hits
apt-file search update-alt   # shows the above result :)


regards,
 Holger
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