On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 22:22:35 -0600, Luis Mochan wrote:
> I guess there is still some confusion. When you installed
> mutt-patched, mutt was overwritten. The same thing happened to me. In
> my system, /usr/bin/mutt is a link pointing to
> /etc/alternatives/mutt. Furthermore, /etc/alternatives/mutt is a link
> pointing to /usr/bin/mutt-patched, which is the actual binary for the
> patched version of mutt. Using the command update-alternatives as I
> mentioned a couple of messages ago, this link may be replaced by a
> link to /usr/bin/mutt-org, which is the binary for the unpatched
> mutt. Thus I can experiment alternating freely between mutt-patched
> and mutt (unpatched) without having to uninstall either. I use Debian,
> but I understand that the 'alternatives' system is available in Ubuntu
> also.
(Note also that the alternates system is used only to determine which
version of the program the "mutt" command invokes -- you can always just
run "mutt-org" or "mutt-patched" explicitly to pick one or the other for
a particular run.)
Nathan
