Re: Need help installing an "alternative"

[godo <goran@dobosevic.com>]

Chris wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:40:12 +0200
> godo <goran@dobosevic.com> 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
> > 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.
>
> Wouldn't it be better if the syntax was this:
>
> update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-www-browser
> x-www-browser /opt/firefox/firefox 3
>
> Of course, this would be making use of /opt for what it was
> originally intended, for all the software and add-on packages that are
> not part of the default installation.
>
> Reference points:
> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/opt.html
> http://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard
Sure it will be better, but I do not intend to keep long Firefox. For 
few days /home/ would be ok.

In any case thanks for tip.
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