>>>>> "Eric" == Eric G Miller <[email protected]> writes:
itz> However, that's not how it seems to work on potato. I noticed itz> that after the installation I got /etc/alternatives/awk pointing itz> to /usr/bin/mawk and /etc/alternatives/awk.1.gz pointing to itz> /usr/man/man1/mawk.1.gz. Since I prefer gawk, I did (as root) itz> update-alternatives --config /usr/bin/awk awk /usr/bin/gawk Eric> You left out the slave link for the man pages, hence they Eric> weren't updated. Reread that alternatives man page (yes, it's Eric> confusing). I was under the impression that it was the whole point of this feature that it would figure that out automatically. Certainly the system has enough information to do that, looking at the files in /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives. -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107
