On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 18:20 -0400, Eric B. wrote:
In my struggle today to get python2.4 installed on my CentOS4 system, I saw that it installed a packaged called alternatives which is supposed to handle symbolic links to default commands in a nice clean, structured way. However, I am having trouble understanding how this thing works.
I have read the man page half a dozen times already, and yet the alternative link for python which was installed doesn't seem to follow what is written in the man page. I am trying to modify the default behaviour for it, but having a lot of difficulty.
As an end-user, the only important commands you need are:
"alternatives --display <name>": Show information about an alternative "alternatives --config <name>": Allow selection of an alternative "ls /var/lib/alternatives": Show valid alternatives