etc alternatives craziness

[Karl F. Larsen]

Ed Lazerus wrote:
> 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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	Your using Hardy 8.04 and you don't like the old applications 
which were new when Hardy was new. Have you considered 
upgrading to say Jaunty? I am using that and like it. Has 
newer stuff.

73 Karl


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