Re: Need help installing an "alternative"

[Cameron Hutchison <lists@xdna.net>]

Tom Furie <tom@furie.org.uk> writes:

>On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 01:38:56AM -0000, Cameron Hutchison wrote:
>> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
>> 
>> ># 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
>>
>> I think you want this:
>> 
>> # update-alternatives --install x-www-browser /usr/bin/x-www-browser \
>> 	/usr/local/firefox/firefox 3
>> 
>> That sets up /usr/local/firefox/firefox as an alternative for
>> /usr/sbin/x-www-browser .

>According to the manpage (on lenny) the arguments to --install are
>"genname symlink altern priority", so that would be

># update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-www-browser x-www-browser \
> /usr/local/firefox/firefox 3

Absolutely right. Apologies for the incorrect information.