>>>>> Charles Wilson writes:
> Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
>> What does this
>> path to alternate expected in /var/lib/alternatives/gs
>> mean ?
> Some sort of parsing error. At that line in the code, the program
> expects that the line contains exactly an absolute path to the target
> program.
> e.g.
> line = parseLine(&bufp);
> while (line && *line) {
set-> alts = realloc(set->alts, (set->numAlts + 1) *
> sizeof(*set->alts));
> if (*line != '/') {
> PARANOID_FREE(buf);
> fprintf(stderr, _("path to alternate expected in %s\n"), path);
> return 1;\
> }
> ...
> So, line does not start with '/'. So, it's either somehow in the wrong
> state when parsing that particular line, or the line has a relative
> path or something. What you did not post, was your actual,
> problematic /var/lib/alternatives/gs file...
I still have a backup from after the setup run upgrading from
ghostscript-8.62-1 to -2.
------- snip -----
auto
/usr/bin/gs
/usr/bin/gs-x11
20
------- snip -----
This matches my expectation from what I see in the setup.log.
> FWIW, I can't reproduce this. I even tried mounting
> /var/lib/alternatives in text mode to see if that was the problem. It
> wasn't.
> Here is what gs SHOULD look like, if you have both ghostscript and
> ghostscript-x11 installed:
> ------ snip -------
> auto
> /usr/bin/gs
> /usr/bin/gs-native
> 10
> /usr/bin/gs-x11
> 20
> ------ snip ------
This was exactly the content after installation of ghostscript-8.62-1. I
also remember that for example
update-alternatives --display|--config gs
worked.
I just tried again:
I deleted /usr/bin/gs symlink, /etc/alternatives/gs symlink and
/var/lib/alternatives/gs.
12:13 AM [506]> update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gs gs /usr/bin/gs-native
10
01:20 AM [507]> update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gs gs /usr/bin/gs-x11 20
path to alternate expected in /var/lib/alternatives/gs
01:20 AM [508]> cat /var/lib/alternatives/gs
auto
/usr/bin/gs
/usr/bin/gs-native
10
> Chuck
Ciao
Volker
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