Re: alternatives for a proprietary lib file

[Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com>]

On 01/03/2015 11:29 AM, Sam Halliday wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a license for the Intel Math Kernel Library which has a file
>
>    /opt/intel/mkl/lib/intel64/libmkl_rt.so
>
> that provides a lot of interfaces, such as BLAS/CBLAS (i.e.
> libblas.so.3) and LAPACK (i.e. liblapack.so.3).
>
> I'd like to be able to use the Debian alternatives system to point at
> this file, without having to manually create symbolic links.
>
> Does anybody know how I can do this? Much of the documentation I have
> found is related to usage of alternatives, not the creation of a new
> alternative for a file.
>
> Ideally, it would be nice to be able to create a little .deb package
> that simply provides the option to use this library as an alternative
> and to give it the highest priority.

Check out galternatives. Works a charm and it's easy to use, even for 
the complete idiot. :) Ric.

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