Re: Need help installing an "alternative"

2010-04-09 Thread godo
Chris wrote: On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:40:12 +0200 godo wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Hi, I just locally installed upstream firefox, and of course Debian Alternatives doesn't know about it, so Iceweasel, which uses x-www-browser loads iceape, which I don't want. "update-alternatives --install"

Re: Need help installing an "alternative"

2010-04-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-08 23:38, Chris wrote: On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:40:12 +0200 godo wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Hi, I just locally installed upstream firefox, and of course Debian Alternatives doesn't know about it, so Iceweasel, which uses x-www-browser loads iceape, which I don't want. "update-alt

Re: Need help installing an "alternative"

2010-04-08 Thread Chris
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:40:12 +0200 godo wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just locally installed upstream firefox, and of course Debian > > Alternatives doesn't know about it, so Iceweasel, which uses > > x-www-browser loads iceape, which I don't want. > > > > "update-alternatives

Re: Need help installing an "alternative"

2010-04-08 Thread godo
Ron Johnson wrote: Hi, I just locally installed upstream firefox, and of course Debian Alternatives doesn't know about it, so Iceweasel, which uses x-www-browser loads iceape, which I don't want. "update-alternatives --install" seems to be what I want in order to add /usr/local/firefox/fire

Re: Need help installing an "alternative"

2010-04-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-08 20:38, Cameron Hutchison wrote: Ron Johnson writes: # update-alternatives --install x-www-browser firefox \ /usr/local/firefox/firefox 3 update-alternatives: error: alternative link is not absolute as it should be: x-www-browser What am

Re: Need help installing an "alternative"

2010-04-08 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Tom Furie writes: >On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 01:38:56AM -, Cameron Hutchison wrote: >> Ron Johnson writes: >> >> ># update-alternatives --install x-www-browser firefox \ >> >/usr/local/firefox/firefox 3 >> >update-alternatives: error: alternative link i

Re: Need help installing an "alternative"

2010-04-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-08 20:50, Tom Furie wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 01:38:56AM -, Cameron Hutchison wrote: Ron Johnson writes: # update-alternatives --install x-www-browser firefox \ /usr/local/firefox/firefox 3 update-alternatives: error: alternative link

Re: Need help installing an "alternative"

2010-04-08 Thread godo
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-08 19:50, godo wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Hi, I just locally installed upstream firefox, and of course Debian Alternatives doesn't know about it, so Iceweasel, which uses x-www-browser loads iceape, which I don't want. "update-alternatives --install" seems to b

Re: Need help installing an "alternative"

2010-04-08 Thread Tom Furie
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 01:38:56AM -, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: > > ># update-alternatives --install x-www-browser firefox \ > >/usr/local/firefox/firefox 3 > >update-alternatives: error: alternative link is not absolute as it > >s

Re: Need help installing an "alternative"

2010-04-08 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Ron Johnson writes: ># update-alternatives --install x-www-browser firefox \ >/usr/local/firefox/firefox 3 >update-alternatives: error: alternative link is not absolute as it >should be: x-www-browser >What am I doing wrong? The easiest way to see how th

Re: Need help installing an "alternative"

2010-04-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-08 19:50, godo wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Hi, I just locally installed upstream firefox, and of course Debian Alternatives doesn't know about it, so Iceweasel, which uses x-www-browser loads iceape, which I don't want. "update-alternatives --install" seems to be what I want in ord

Re: Need help installing an "alternative"

2010-04-08 Thread godo
Ron Johnson wrote: Hi, I just locally installed upstream firefox, and of course Debian Alternatives doesn't know about it, so Iceweasel, which uses x-www-browser loads iceape, which I don't want. "update-alternatives --install" seems to be what I want in order to add /usr/local/firefox/fire

Need help installing an "alternative"

2010-04-08 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, I just locally installed upstream firefox, and of course Debian Alternatives doesn't know about it, so Iceweasel, which uses x-www-browser loads iceape, which I don't want. "update-alternatives --install" seems to be what I want in order to add /usr/local/firefox/firefox to the x-www-bro