-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:54:54PM +0000, Wackojacko wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >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? > > Andrew > > Thanks for the responses > > >>not in my path... have you checked out /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives? its > >>all text files and may relate to your problem. > > > > This seems to be just the options used by the update-alternatives > command when --config is chosen. Seems OK. > > >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 > > It certainly does, I do not have all of these symlinks. Obviously, I > can create them manually but I would prefer to know why they disappeared > in the first place. What command is suppose to create them? > > Thanks > Hi Wackojacko, My guess would be to use 'aptitude reinstall' on the packages that contain the alternative. Or maybe purge/install, but that would be much harder to do if there are dependencies involved. I'd expect symlinks to be created with postinstall scripts, so you may want to re-run them. Those scripts are in /var/lib/dpkg/info/$PKG.postinstall and are usually bash scripts. Cheers, Kev - -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | 'under construction' | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
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