On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 08:43:36AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > 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.
hmmm... I did some more poking around, maybe this helps typing x-www-browser loads iceweasel. so that works. which x-www-browser returns /usr/bin/x-www-browser which is a symlink to /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser. so, do you have symlinks in /usr/bin (and probably elsewhere) that point to the /etc/alternatives directory? hth A
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