-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:55:37PM +0000, Wackojacko wrote: > > >>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. > > Tried this on sun-java packages and still no /usr/bin/java > > >Or maybe purge/install, but that would be much > >harder to do if there are dependencies involved. > > No go on this either? > > >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 > > Me too but having reinstalled java it didn't work :(. Also some of the > links that are missing don't have postinstall scripts I could find. > > Thanks for looking. > Hi Wackojacko, this should be the answer. you and I both have java installed and I looked for the elusive /usr/bin/java with: grep /usr/bin/java /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.postinst This turned up: /var/lib/dpkg/info/gij-4.1.postinst This script creates it. 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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