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update-alternatives
Maintain symbolic links determining default commands

update-alternatives creates, removes, maintains and displays
information about the symbolic links comprising the alternatives
system. It is possible for several programs fulfilling the same or
similar functions to be installed on a single system at the same time.
For example, many systems have several text editors installed at once.
This gives choice to the users of a system, allowing each to use a
different editor, if desired, but makes it difficult for a program to
make a good choice of editor to invoke if the user has not specified a
particular preference.
On SUSE Linux, this functionality is only used for packages that are
part of the JPackage project

Except for packages subject to a commercial license, the license identified below is the license designated by the open source project.


Version: 1.8.3
Release: 113.1
Medium: DVD1
Path: /suse/noarch/update-alternatives-1.8.3-113.1.noarch.rpm
Group: System/Management
License: GPL v2 or later
Size: 25 KB
Homepage: http://alternatives.sourceforge.net/

File list

drwxr-xr-x    2 root    root                0 Jun  6 21:44 /etc/alternatives
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root            21622 Jun  6 21:44 /usr/sbin/update-alternatives
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             3887 Jun  6 21:44 /usr/share/man/man8/update-alternatives.8.gz
drwxr-xr-x    2 root    root                0 Jun  6 21:44 /var/lib/rpm/alternatives

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