Questions tagged [alternatives]
in some distributions, a way for the system administrator to choose between similar programs
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GNU assembler alternatives
I am trying to build my system from scratch, since I really like the idea of atomicity of each program in unix-like approach, I would like to preserve it as much as possible in my build.
Since GNU ...
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I deleted my /etc/alternatives/ by accident
I'm on ubuntu 22.04. I was there removing the files related to libcudnn. However, I thought i was CDing inside, but an enter later, I realized that I was on sudo rm -rfing there. So, I ended up ...
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Can I make update-alternatives keep 2 commands in sync?
I have 2 commands that I switch between using update-alternatives on Debian. My problem is that each command also has an autocompleter command that has to be switched at the same time the command is ...
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Why, in my Kali Linux, setting user-installed python3.9.5 to default python3 results in "permission denied: python3" or "python3: command not found"?
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I am using a fresh installation of Kali Linux 2023.1, which has come with Python3.11.1. I need to install MobSF, which requires python3 to correspond to version between python3.8 and ...
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No update-alternatives in AlmaLinux 8 for PHP
I run the command update-alternatives --config php and nothing shows up. I checked for the binaries and they are executables in the /usr/bin folder. Installed PHP versions are 7.4 from the AppStream ...
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Zenity (or alternative) with custom file selector
When I use zenity and type --file-selection, if spawns the default GTK file selector. The problem with that is, of course, the lack of image thumbnails. Considering that I want to make an image ...
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Change from update-alternatives command not taking effect
I tried to change my PHP CLI version with sudo update-alternatives --config php:
There are 2 choices for the alternative php (providing /usr/bin/php).
Selection Path Priority ...
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How can I make the vimdiff command use the same Vim version as the vi and vim commands?
I've never worried about vimdiff on my own computer, where I have archlinux installed, so everything is up-to-date, generally speaking; I generally just used it, and I'm fine with it. After all, :...
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How to use alternatives on linux - CentOS 6?
I am trying to configure python to 3.9 on CentOS 6.
Here is my steps:
[root@quickstart ~]# alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/local/bin/python3.9 10
[root@quickstart ~]# alternatives --...
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how to cd into previous directory
I am using Ubuntu and sometimes when I use cd - I don't go into the previous directory. And every time I get the directory which it cded to. example:-
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/home/[usrname]/Downloads
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/home/[...
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Workspaces/Desktops thumbnails without gnome
I've been trying Openbox and other window managers this week. I'm quite happy and committed to leaving Gnome DE behind.
There's one feature I'm missing though: I like the workspace preview popup that ...
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On RHEL8 how can I use `alternatives` to choose an already listed version as the used version
On a RHEL 8.3 system I have two python3 versions installed and they show up as the version when I list alterantives' versions:
$ alternatives --display python3
/usr/bin/python3.6 - priority 1000000
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Are there any "richer" alternatives to cp and mv (like bat to cat and exa to ls)?
ls has exa. cat has bat. I don't know of a direct alternative to rm, but it also has rmtrash.
All of these can usually work as drop-in alias replacements, retaining usual function and options of their ...
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The alternatives command on FreeBSD (for choosing between versions of a package)
There's an alternatives command on Linux (man page section 1, update-alternatives), and there's a select subcommand on the port command from MacPorts.
Is there an equivalent on FreeBSD? Or do I have ...
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Changing Python's default version breaks Ubuntu 20.04
I'm creating an AMI of Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa), and I want the default Python version to be 3.6.
I installed Python 3.6, also the right pip, and then set the alternative like so:
update-...
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