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NoneNonegodo <goran@dobosevic.com> 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 order to
> > add /usr/local/firefox/firefox to the x-www-browser list, but can't
> > get it to work.
> > 
> > # 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?
> > 
> > TIA
> > 
> I think I got it.
> 
> update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-www-browser x-www-browser 
> /home/my_username/.firefox/firefox 3
> 
> I didn't got any error.
> 

Wouldn't it be better if the syntax was this:

update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-www-browser
x-www-browser /opt/firefox/firefox 3

Of course, this would be making use of /opt for what it was
originally intended, for all the software and add-on packages that are
not part of the default installation.

Reference points:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/opt.html
http://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard






-- 
Regards,

Chris

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government fears the people, there is liberty."

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