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.
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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
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