block 431453 by 414413 retitle 431453 unrar-free: please use update-alternatives for unrar thanks
Alex Henry Ribeiro dos Santos wrote: > Package: unrar-free > Version: 1:0.0.1+cvs20070515-1 > Severity: wishlist > > Most applications that use unrar check for the file '$PATH/unrar'. Installing > the 'unrar-free' package has been > mostly useless to me, but now that I've created a symlink named '$PATH/unrar' > pointing to the '/usr/bin/unrar-free' > executable, all rar-dependent apps seem to work normally. > My suggestion is to create this link during the Debian packages's > installation. Is it possible? Would be even better > if it checked not to overwrite any pre-existent /usr/bin/unrar file! > > Thanks very much for reading! > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 4.0 > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 > Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > > Versions of packages unrar-free depends on: > ii libc6 2.5-9+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries > > unrar-free recommends no packages. > > -- no debconf information > > Hi Alex, Please also read bug #414413. I suggest it's better to wait for unrar to use "update-alternatives" first. And after unrar uses update-alternatives, we then can use it to provide the link you mentioned. Using update-alternatives seems an elegant solution. [1] #414413 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=414413 Regards, Ying-Chun Liu -- PaulLiu(劉穎駿) E-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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