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Re: /etc/alternatives not working properly



On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:55:37PM +0000, Wackojacko wrote:
> 
> >>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. 
> 
> Tried this on sun-java packages and still no /usr/bin/java

since update-alternatives comes from the dpkg package, try
reinstalling dpkg, maybe. Or you could look into galternatives which
is a gui front-end to alternatives and maybe that might help. But I'd
try reinstall dpkg first.

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