Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

2010-05-07 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 05/07/2010 06:06 PM, Andrew Reid wrote: The x-www-browser is respected by K desktop apps, and in my config, they all now use Iceweasel instead of Konqueror when I click on links. I don't know what other apps might or might not respect the x-www-browser setting, but I would think any deskt

Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

2010-05-07 Thread Andrew Reid
On Thursday 06 May 2010 23:20:07 T o n g wrote: > > $ update-alternatives --display firefox > update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for firefox. > > $ update-alternatives --display mozilla > update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for mozilla. In the alternatives scheme, the browser i

Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

2010-05-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 07 May 2010 17:16:44 +0300 Aioanei Rares wrote: Hello Aioanei, > A symlink might help you accomplish that. T o n g's point is that there used to be one. At some upgrade or other, it's been removed. The question is: Why? -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious

Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

2010-05-07 Thread Zoran Kolic
> Having upgraded iceweasel, I am no longer able to call firefox or mozilla > from command line any more. I don't mind firefox is called iceweasel or > whatever in Debian, but entirely stopping me from starting firefox is > something I don't feel comfortable. > Please comment. If I understand

Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

2010-05-07 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 05/07/2010 05:11 PM, T o n g wrote: [snip] Thanks Sven, and everyone who replied. Just FYI, I was able to start iceweasel by either firefox or mozilla before. A symlink might help you accomplish that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

2010-05-07 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 07 May 2010 07:41:44 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> whatever in Debian, but entirely stopping me from starting firefox is >> something I don't feel comfortable. > > This is a feeling that many other users share, and therefore… > >> $ apt-cache policy iceweasel >> iceweasel: >> Installed

Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

2010-05-07 Thread deloptes
T o n g wrote: > Version table: > 3.5.9-3 0 > 50 http://debian.mirror.rafal.ca unstable/main Packages > *** 3.5.9-2 0 > 300 http://debian.mirror.rafal.ca testing/main Packages > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Didn't it said unstable??? what would you expect??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

2010-05-07 Thread Jimmy Johnson
T o n g wrote: Hi, Having upgraded iceweasel, I am no longer able to call firefox or mozilla from command line any more. I don't mind firefox is called iceweasel or whatever in Debian, but entirely stopping me from starting firefox is something I don't feel comfortable. Please comment.

Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

2010-05-06 Thread godo
On 05/07/2010 05:20 AM, T o n g wrote: Hi, Having upgraded iceweasel, I am no longer able to call firefox or mozilla from command line any more. I don't mind firefox is called iceweasel or whatever in Debian, but entirely stopping me from starting firefox is something I don't feel comfortable.

Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

2010-05-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-07 05:20 +0200, T o n g wrote: > Having upgraded iceweasel, I am no longer able to call firefox or mozilla > from command line any more. I don't mind firefox is called iceweasel or > whatever in Debian, but entirely stopping me from starting firefox is > something I don't feel comfor

Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

2010-05-06 Thread Gergely 'Dinchamion' Fazekas
While in certain situations it might be uncomfortable, but I use Chrome and didn't really encounter any problems. But I agree that it would be easier to integrate the default browser as a variable, that could be called on by applications, instead of calling on a specific one. However, I su

Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

2010-05-06 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 07 May 2010 03:20:07 +, T o n g wrote: > Having upgraded iceweasel, I am no longer able to call firefox or > mozilla from command line any more. I don't mind firefox is called > iceweasel or whatever in Debian, but entirely stopping me from starting > firefox is something I don't feel

no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

2010-05-06 Thread T o n g
Hi, Having upgraded iceweasel, I am no longer able to call firefox or mozilla from command line any more. I don't mind firefox is called iceweasel or whatever in Debian, but entirely stopping me from starting firefox is something I don't feel comfortable. Please comment. PS: $ apt-cache pol