On Monday 01 February 2010 11:11:21 Atte André Jensen wrote: > Arnold Krille wrote: > > Atte, please! You can compile sources by hand and don't know how to do > > "update-alteratives --help"? Or even running "update-alternatives" > > without anything to get the same help-text? > Yes, I do, but I've always feared what happened if I just did what I > thought might be the right thing. For some reason I always had "this > thing" with building QT-apps, and I rarely use update-alternatives > anymore, call my lazy or lucky :-) > > So I was hoping you could show me the correct one liner to get me > started. My guess is: > > sudo update-alternatives --set qmake /usr/bin/qmake-qt4 > > I felt a little adventurous (maybe due to your "please"), so I went > ahead and tried with my fingers crossed, and now VocProc builds :-) > > Am I right to asume that the only things my update-alternatives command > did was change the symlink in /etc/alternatives/qmake to point to > usr/bin/qmake-qt4 touching *no other* files on my system? Yep, update-alternatives only does changes in /etc/alternatives. It doesn't even mess around with stuff in /usr, which in case of alternatives is just links to /etc/alternatives. Meaning if you have virtual or disk-less machines that use the same root-directory from a server, all can have their own alternatives set (because the /etc directory should be writeable and custom to each installation). Instead of "--set" you could also have used "--config" which presents you with a nice list of the available alternatives and lets you choose one (or go on with the current)... Have fun, Arnold
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