On 2016-09-16 at 10:10, Tony Baldwin wrote:
I'm having another headache...
I want to make Icedove the default mail client.
I had this done on the last Jessie system I had (on a now defunct hdd).
But I can't recall how I did it, if it was with update-alternative or
some other means..
And something that's been bothering me for a while is:
I can't seem to find or figure out how to list all the alternatives I
can manage with update-alternatives.
I mean, I can get a list for a particular item, like x-www-browser or
editor, but I want a list of all those possible things to update
(x-www-browser, editor, etc.)
Is there such a list somewhere?
From the man page,
update-alternatives --get-selections
looks like it should do what you want, at least as far as alternative
groups currently present on the system. (Naturally, because any package
can add a new link group - or the administrator can do it manually, if
desired - nothing can provide a list of every possible link group which
could exist.)
I don't see any obvious sign of a generic "mail client" link group
listed there, though.