Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives
On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 09:12:54AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Sb, 04 apr 20, 12:32:06, Carl Fink wrote:
> > So, I removed firefox-esr and replaced it with stable firefox. I ran
> > update-alternatives to point to firefox-esr. The current listing doesn't
> > even include firefox-esr:
>
> This makes no sense to me, could you please rephrase? What browser do
> you have installed right now? How did you install firefox-esr and
> firefox?
Right now, stable Firefox from mozilla.org binary. Previously, the firefox-esr
package from Debian Stable, installed and removed using apt.
> > root@debian-NUCi5:~# update-alternatives --list x-www-browser
> > /usr/bin/chromium
> > /usr/bin/epiphany-browser
> > /usr/bin/firefox
> > /usr/bin/surf
>
> Please post the output of
>
> update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
carlf@debian-NUCi5:~$ update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
There are 4 choices for the alternative x-www-browser (providing /usr/bin/x-www-browser).
Selection Path Priority Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0 /usr/bin/epiphany-browser 85 auto mode
1 /usr/bin/chromium 40 manual mode
2 /usr/bin/epiphany-browser 85 manual mode
3 /usr/bin/firefox 20 manual mode
4 /usr/bin/surf 30 manual mode
Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:
Note that the current selection 3 was added after I posted (by manually
creating a .desktop file). And that doing that had no effect on how rclone
reacted--it still tried to launch a nonexistent firefox-esr.
I worked around the problem by making a symbolic link from
/usr/bin/chromium to /usr/bin/firefox-esr (because I do all my
organizational Google stuff, and only Google stuff, using Chromium, to keep
organizational Google stuff separate from my personal things).
(Then I found out that rclone, despite having the motto "rsync for cloud
storage", doesn't actually do what rsync does, which was disappointing.)
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