On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 19:45:31 +0200
Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 17:48:49 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:19:27 +0200 Guillem Jover wrote:
> > > This means some package in your system is using an absolute path
> > > to update-alternatives, which is wrong and should be fixed. A bit
> > > more context would help here to diagnose where the actual problem
> > > is, so that the bug report can be reassigned to the correct place.
> 
> > [root:Fri Aug 23 16:34:06 @/home/boudiccas]$ [1025]>; apt-get
> > install spe
> […]
> > Processing triggers for menu ...
> > sh: 1: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives: not found
> > [root:Fri Aug 23 17:44:04 @/home/boudiccas]$ [1026]>; 
> 
> It seems the installation went fine, and something after that failed,
> maybe some hook?
> 
> Could you «grep -sr update-alternatives /etc/apt /etc/dpkg»? If that
> does not match anything maybe check what gets executed from the hooks
> in there and grep those other scripts?

[boudiccas:Fri Aug 23 18:38:58 @~]$ [8749]>; grep -sr
update-alternatives /etc/apt /etc/dpkg 
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99-edu-prefer-iceweasel:"x=/usr/bin/iceweasel;[ -x
$x ]&&/usr/sbin/update-alternatives --set x-www-browser $x||true";

Sharon.
> 
> > Does this help? If not, could you give me more detailed
> > instructiond as to what you want?
> 
> Let's see.
> 
> Thanks,
> Guillem



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