Re: /usr/sbin/alternatives-update missing

[Sam Varghese <sam@gnubies.com>]

On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 11:37:33AM +0000, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 03 Jan 2014 at 19:20:57 +1100, Sam Varghese wrote:
> 
> > i am running the testing stream on a fairly
> > old laptop.
> > 
> > At the end of every upgrade, I get this message:
> > sh: 1: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives: not found
> 
> Does bug #720575 help in tracking this down?
> 
>    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=720575
> 

thanks a lot, brian.

yes, i managed to fix this issue after reading the bug report. i waited until i
could do an update to test it out before replying to the list.

for anyone else having the same issue, what i did was:

apt-get install debian-edu-config

this pulls in a few extra packages, amounting to about 23 MB.

i thought this would suffice but when it did not, i re-read the bug report,
and made one change in /etc/apt/apt/apt.conf/99-edu-prefer-iceweasel.

the line that was originally:

"x=/usr/bin/iceweasel;[ -x $x ] && update-alternatives --set x-www-brow
ser $x||true";

i changed to:

"x=/usr/bin/iceweasel;[ -x $x ] && /usr/bin/update-alternatives --set x-www-brow
ser $x||true";

it's good to see that debian-user is still as active and helpful as it was back
in 2003 when i was a subscriber.

sam
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(Sam Varghese)
Debian user since 2000