On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:58:39PM +0200, alex wrote: >> I can't reproduce that here. Can you tell me what the symbolic link >> /usr/bin/gvim points to? On my system it looks like: >> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2006-02-14 15:39 /usr/bin/gvim -> >> /etc/alternatives/gvim >> >> And /etc/alternatives/gvim points to... >> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2007-10-23 20:42 /etc/alternatives/gvim -> >> /usr/bin/vim.gtk > > Seems that this is the problem, on my system: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/downloads]$ l /usr/bin/gvim > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2006-09-02 00:25 /usr/bin/gvim -> > /etc/alternatives/gvim > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/downloads]$ l /etc/alternatives/gvim > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2007-08-10 16:38 /etc/alternatives/gvim -> > /usr/bin/vim.full > > there is none /usr/bin/vim.full > > I changed manually the symbolic link and now all works fine, so maybe > this > is not a problem in cream package, but vim || vim-gtk...
I just wonder how it could happen that you get a broken link. Did you alter it manually without properly using "update-alternatives --config"? I haven't looked into the vim source package but I'd bet it's using update-alternatives usually. I'd be interested if anyone else sees this. Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
