Re: alternatives for a proprietary lib file
On 3 January 2015 at 17:19, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Jan 2015, Sam Halliday wrote:
>> /opt/intel/mkl/lib/intel64/libmkl_rt.so
>>
>> I'd like to be able to use the Debian alternatives system to point at
>> this file, without having to manually create symbolic links.
>
> Alternatives are not the correct tool for this. Take a look at the
> dpkg-divert stuff, divert the original libs, and add a symlink in their
> place.
Normally what you say is true, but Debian already manages libblas.so.3
and liblapack.so.3 using the alternatives system (they are specialist
mathematics libraries that can be swapped at runtime for improved
performance).
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