Re: Need help installing an "alternative"

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2010-04-08 19:50, godo wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just locally installed upstream firefox, and of course Debian 
> > Alternatives doesn't know about it, so Iceweasel, which uses 
> > x-www-browser loads iceape, which I don't want.
> >
> > "update-alternatives --install" seems to be what I want in order to 
> > add /usr/local/firefox/firefox to the x-www-browser list, but can't 
> > get it to work.
> >
> > # update-alternatives --install x-www-browser firefox \
> >                                        /usr/local/firefox/firefox 3
> > update-alternatives: error: alternative link is not absolute as it 
> > should be: x-www-browser
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > TIA
> Hi
> first I newer used update-alternatives so I don't know but is it maybe a
> problem: "firefox 3" in # update-alternatives --install x-www-browser 
> firefox /usr/local/firefox/firefox 3
> Shouldn be /usr/local/firefox/"firefox 3" maybe?

The parameters to "update-alternatives --install" are:
link      x-www-browser
name      firefox
path      /usr/local/firefox/firefox
priority  3



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