Re: /etc/alternatives not working properly
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:54:54PM +0000, Wackojacko wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 08:43:36AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >>On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 04:14:55PM +0000, Wackojacko wrote:
> >>>Due to changing partitions around I managed to mess up my Debian Sid
> >>>AMD64 install. I reinstalled from scratch and then restored my /etc
> >>>directory from a backup. Now none of the commands in /etc/alternative
> >>>work (java, wx-config x-www-browser etc). All of the symlinks are
> >>>present and I have tried update-alternatives --all with no luck.
> >>>
> >>>If I add /etc/alternatives to my PATH then they work again, but I don't
> >>>remember having to do this before.
> >>>
> >>>Should /etc/alternatives be in my PATH, if so should I add it to
> >>>/etc/profile. If not, anyone got any ideas how to restore the
> >>>alternatives system to its former state?
>
> Andrew
>
> Thanks for the responses
>
> >>not in my path... have you checked out /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives? its
> >>all text files and may relate to your problem.
> >
>
> This seems to be just the options used by the update-alternatives
> command when --config is chosen. Seems OK.
>
> >hmmm... I did some more poking around, maybe this helps
> >
> >typing x-www-browser loads iceweasel. so that works.
> >
> >which x-www-browser returns /usr/bin/x-www-browser which is a symlink
> >to /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser. so, do you have symlinks in
> >/usr/bin (and probably elsewhere) that point to the /etc/alternatives
> >directory?
> >
> >hth
> >
> >A
>
> It certainly does, I do not have all of these symlinks. Obviously, I
> can create them manually but I would prefer to know why they disappeared
> in the first place. What command is suppose to create them?
>
> Thanks
>
Hi Wackojacko,
My guess would be to use 'aptitude reinstall' on the packages that
contain the alternative. Or maybe purge/install, but that would be much
harder to do if there are dependencies involved. I'd expect symlinks to
be created with postinstall scripts, so you may want to re-run them.
Those scripts are in /var/lib/dpkg/info/$PKG.postinstall and are usually
bash scripts.
Cheers,
Kev
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