etc alternatives craziness

[Ed Lazerus]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ed Lazerus wrote:
> > Dear list,
> >
> > Can someone please tell me how can I disable and prevent this
> > /etc/alternative mess?
> > it is cause so many things to not work, many seem to be disabled and
> links
> > to non existent files.
> > Please, I'm not interested in fixing the alternatives stuff, I would like
> to
> > know if it can be removed completely so installed softwares work as they
> > should.
> >
> > I run Hardy and decided to use a 21st century version of aMSN and not the
> > old rubbish we have to put up with, I removed amsn and amsn-data, I built
> > the new aMSN, and run make deb, install with dpkg, all good, until I try
> run
> > and it complain about wish (I create symlink so amsn now good) , this is
> > just one of many things I find not work, so decide alternatives has to go
> > because I have better things to do then recreate a lot of symlinks.
> >
> > ciao Eddie
> >
> >
>         I looked and Ubuntu Jaunty does have a /etc/alternatives but
> in all the time I have had Jaunty I had no reason to look at
> the directory. It has a lot of stuff for sure. I have Hardy
> too. Also never ever looked at that. How did YOU manage to
> screw it up?
>
> 73 Karl
>

I screwed nothing up, I did not like the very old versions of lynx, and
amsn, so i used synaptic to completely remove them, then i installed the
source for lynx, and built amsn using make deb, so ubuntu screwed up
 by not removing whatever it wants in /etc/alternatives given I used
complete remove option.

Also java wont run, and I never touched anything to do with that one!


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