-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
On Thursday 23 December 2004 01:56, Randolph Kahle wrote: > I am doing a fresh install of Debian and I following instructions to > install Java. > > The instructions tell me to use the program "update-alternates". It is > not installed on my machine and I've done a search of the Debian web > site and I cannot figure out which apt package to install to get this > command. I guess you or the instructions :) mean "update-alternatives" which is part of the dpkg-package. You can use apt-file (package apt-file) to search for files in all debian packages in your sources.lists: apt-file update apt-file search update-alternates # results in no hits apt-file search update-alt # shows the above result :) regards, Holger -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFByoKIUHLQNqxYNSARAhLsAJ4yCTRLZ597aLYQFknwymiJAQViOgCfZD/u tNXZTL2rbEZ0OTZIlgQjtHU= =M/gs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----