On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 04:14:55PM +0000, Wackojacko wrote: > Due to changing partitions around I managed to mess up my Debian Sid > AMD64 install. I reinstalled from scratch and then restored my /etc > directory from a backup. Now none of the commands in /etc/alternative > work (java, wx-config x-www-browser etc). All of the symlinks are > present and I have tried update-alternatives --all with no luck. > > If I add /etc/alternatives to my PATH then they work again, but I don't > remember having to do this before. > > Should /etc/alternatives be in my PATH, if so should I add it to > /etc/profile. If not, anyone got any ideas how to restore the > alternatives system to its former state?
not in my path... have you checked out /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives? its all text files and may relate to your problem. A
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