Re: Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

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Subject: Re: Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX
From: "Patrick Wiseman" <pwiseman@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:13:16 -0400
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On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:
> Patrick Wiseman:
>
> >
>  > rm /etc/alternatives/acroread
>  > ln -s /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader8/bin/acroread-en /etc/alternatives/acroread
>
>  The proper way to handle the symlinks in /etc/alternatives is to use
>  update-alternatives.

Thanks - next time I'll know to do that - but shouldn't that be part
of a packages postinst responsibility, if it's changed something?

Patrick

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