On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 06:48:03PM -0700, Dave Margolis wrote: > Micah J. Cowan wrote: > > > > - What is the output of "namei x-www-browser"? > > $ namei x-www-browser > f: x-www-browser > ? x-www-browser - No such file or directory (2) > > > > > If x-www-browser appears to point at conquerer, you'll want to do a: > > sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser > > Did that. Choose /usr/bin/firefox > > That didn't change the output of "namei x-www-browser" but it did fix > the problem. Now I'm reading some man pages to figure out what the hell > I just did.
My fault, that should've been "namei /usr/bin/x-www-browser". The Debian alternatives system: keeps some symlinks for generic binaries around, and provides a system to point them at your favorite apps. So, for example, Ubuntu systems ship with /usr/bin/editor pointing at /usr/bin/nano. I'm not much for nano, and prefer vim, so I immediately run "sudo update-alternatives --set x-www-browser /usr/bin/vim". FWIW, you can also point cc at things other than gcc. :-) Have a look at /etc/alternatives to see what symlinks exist there. /usr/bin/x-www-browser actually points at /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser, which in turn now points at /usr/bin/firefox. -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech