On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 03:55:09PM -0600, Luis Mochan wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 08:29:29AM +1100, Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
> > ...
> > >
> > > Under Debian you could run
> > >
> > > sudo update-alternatives --config mutt
> > >
> > > to choose which mutt (patched or not) to run by default. I guess that
> > > Ubuntu is similar. Thus, it was not really necessary to
> > > uninstall/reinstall in order to test and choose among the two mutt
> > > versions. Of
> > > course, you already did...
> >
> > Indeed. I used the synaptic package manager. That is probably more
> > simple minded than updating from a prompt in the terminal. Nevertheless
> > it is very easy to use.
> >
>
> I guess there is some confusion: Synaptic, like aptitude and apt-get,
> is for installing and removing packages. Update-alternatives is to
> choose which program to use when you have several programs installed
> that offer similar functionality, such as the patched and the
> un-patched versions of mutt. You may install both using synaptics and
> then choose which one to use (by default) without uninstalling the
> other.
No, that is not how it worked. I had the normal mutt for months.
Yesterday I installed mutt-patched and it overwrote mutt. It was just a
link to mutt-patched. Am I missing something?
Brian.
> Regards,
> Luis
>
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