[PLUG] using update-alternatives
Karl M. Hegbloom
karlheg at pdxlinux.org
Wed Jul 24 23:16:02 UTC 2002
On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 15:19, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> I installed a pretty bare-bones set of packages on my Debian/Alpha
> system (and the related thread about a small Debian being really small
> is spot-on :-) -- and I'm just now getting around to adding some
> development packages.
>
> I decided to install the gcc-3.0 package rather than 2.95 for a
> variety of reasons. In any event, the binary was installed as gcc-3.0
> rather than gcc -- which is fine, but I'd like to have a 'gcc' or 'cc
> in my $PATH.
>
> There are all sorts of ways to accomplish this (a manual symlink or a
> shell alias are the two that come to mind), but I thought I'd try
> using the update-alternatives facility instead.
>
> So, what's the canonical way to add a 'cc' link to the alternatives
> system and point it at gcc-3.0?
man update-alternatives
You could install both "vim" and "nvi", then look at what they do in
their "/var/lib/dpkg/info/PKG.postinst" files, for a sample.
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