On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 11:37:33AM +0000, Brian wrote: > On Fri 03 Jan 2014 at 19:20:57 +1100, Sam Varghese wrote: > > > i am running the testing stream on a fairly > > old laptop. > > > > At the end of every upgrade, I get this message: > > sh: 1: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives: not found > > Does bug #720575 help in tracking this down? > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=720575 >
thanks a lot, brian. yes, i managed to fix this issue after reading the bug report. i waited until i could do an update to test it out before replying to the list. for anyone else having the same issue, what i did was: apt-get install debian-edu-config this pulls in a few extra packages, amounting to about 23 MB. i thought this would suffice but when it did not, i re-read the bug report, and made one change in /etc/apt/apt/apt.conf/99-edu-prefer-iceweasel. the line that was originally: "x=/usr/bin/iceweasel;[ -x $x ] && update-alternatives --set x-www-brow ser $x||true"; i changed to: "x=/usr/bin/iceweasel;[ -x $x ] && /usr/bin/update-alternatives --set x-www-brow ser $x||true"; it's good to see that debian-user is still as active and helpful as it was back in 2003 when i was a subscriber. sam ------------- (Sam Varghese) Debian user since 2000 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140105001612.GA12360@imap://gnubies.gnubies.com
