Re: Need help installing an "alternative"

[godo <goran@dobosevic.com>]

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
I think I got it.

update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-www-browser x-www-browser 
/home/my_username/.firefox/firefox 3

I didn't got any error.

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