Re: Update-alternatives questions

2009-04-27 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Paul E Condon: I can't find a way to simply list the link groups, or a way to learn what packages actually use/set which each link group. On 14.04.09 10:03, Jochen Schulz wrote: ls /etc/alternatives shows all the link groups on your system. It doesn't say which package uses which link

Re: Update-alternatives questions

2009-04-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
Paul E Condon: I can't find a way to simply list the link groups, or a way to learn what packages actually use/set which each link group. ls /etc/alternatives shows all the link groups on your system. It doesn't say which package uses which link group, though. For each file in

Update-alternatives questions

2009-04-13 Thread Paul E Condon
I understand the purpose of update-alternatives, but read further where I display my ignorance. The only way I can use it is: update-alternatives --all This results in cycling thru a long list of questions about various selections which I have no interest in changing, hoping that I will spot,

update-alternatives questions

1998-03-25 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I was messing around with update-alternatives since I had a bunch of dangling symbolic links in my man pages for some reason. I think the dangling links may be related to the fact that I removed emacs and installed xemacs. Basically I did the following really stupid thing: