Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:51:43PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote: | > On (11/01/06 21:01), mess-mate wrote: | > > Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > > I've come in late on this but have you looked at /etc/alternatives | > > you symlink the line: | > | www-browser to something link | > > /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox | > > | | > > I did :( /usr/bin/mozilla is a link to /etc/alternatives/mozilla | > | > I may be wrong but this wouldn't do it. You need to link your | > preferred browser to www-browser | > | > www-browser -> /usr/bin/mozilla | | Of course, this works, but it is not LHS-compatible, and so Debian | will not do it automatically. Rather, the Debian convention (which | update-alternatives enforces) is to link /usr/bin/www-browser to | /etc/alternatives/www-browser always. /etc/alternatives/www-browser is | another symbolic link, which the administrator can point to mozilla, or | whatever. (This can and should be done through update-alternatives(8) | rather than manually). The point is that to change the target of | www-browser does not require the administrator to touch /usr, which is | not meant to contain configuration and which the administrator should | not change except in /usr/local. | | Note that changes to /usr will not be preserved through upgrades, | except when they are done through the debian system (dpkg-divert, | dpkg-statoverride). | Thanks to all and especally to Hendrik and Andrew and Paulo... I've solved the problem with ... galternatives... to point /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser to /usr/bin/mozilla.
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