On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:59:21PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
| debian world, awk is mawk.
| So I installed gawk. However unlike when one installs postfix, and
| exim gets kicked out, mawk is unphased and still what one gets if
| one types "awk".
So?
One solution :
# update-alternatives --di
> It seems I would have to got to /etc/alternatives and rip it up and
> point it over by hand.
That confused me too when I first tried debian. But then I learned
that the 'debian way' is to use update-alternatives to manage the
alternatives links.
update-alternatives --display awk
update-al
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:59:21PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Back when I used some other leading brand of GNu/Linux, boys were
> boys, girls were girls, and awk was gawk. Now switching to the
> debian world, awk is mawk.
Didn't we go over this, including contributions from the maintainer,
jus
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