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Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment]

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On 06/29/2020 07:26 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 07:15:56AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> On 06/28/2020 09:36 AM, echo test wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> If you want the desktop environment to be started automatically check that
>>> systemd is configured to run in graphical environment
>>>
>>>   $> systemctl set-default graphical.target
>>>
>>> If this is already setup, and you can launch your DE with startx, check also
>>> that mate is the default DE with update-alternatives(8) or you can add the
>>> startx command in /etc/profile.
>>>
>>
>> That manpage was intriguing, if not educational. I went searching
>> for "update-alternatives tutorials". They all referenced Ubuntu and
>> each covered only one instance.
> 
> FWIW, update-alternatives isn't (directly) related to the other
> topics upstream.
> 
> It's intended to manage groups of workalike "applications", for example
> bash, dash, etc. as alternatives to sh, or vim, elvis as alternatives
> for vi.
> 
> It does so by juggling symlinks somewhere in /etc/alternatives. It's
> smart enough to also juggle the relevant man pages, so that if you,
> e.g. use "vim" for "vi", "man vi" will show you the vim man page.
> 
>> I'm looking for something that aims to answer "What can
>> update-alternatives do for me today?". IOW the manpage gives fine
>> details but no sense of perspective.
> 
> See "man update-alternatives", or this entry [1] in the Debian
> wiki.
> 
> It's a Debian-specific thing.
> 
> What alternatives does for you? Mostly it does its job silently,
> without complaining ;-)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives

That is the type of page I was looking for. I think the links there will 
be valuable.

There is a "broken link" under "See Also"
Clicking on [ http://www.debian-administration.org/article/91 ] yields:
> $VAR1 = \'Can\'t connect to local MySQL server through socket \'/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock\' (111 "Connection refused") at ../lib/Singleton/DBI.pm line 95. '; 

[ https://debian-administration.org/ ] says:
> This site is now 100% read-only, and retired.
> This site is going to go read-only
> Posted by Steve on Sun 10 Sep 2017 at 07:02
> Tags: meta, site news
> 
> This site was born in late September 2004, and has now reached 13 years of age
> and that seems to be a fitting time to stop.

I believe a good link would be
[ 
https://web.archive.org/web/20140406045047/http://www.debian-administration.org/article/91/ 
]

Even though anyone can modify a wiki, I don't know enough about the 
topic to be comfortable doing it.

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Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-28 15:30 +0200
  Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-06-28 15:40 +0200
    Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-28 16:20 +0200
      Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment echo test <echotest09@gmail.com> - 2020-06-28 16:40 +0200
        update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command  line environment] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-29 14:20 +0200
          Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a  command line environment] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-06-29 14:30 +0200
            Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a  command line environment] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-29 16:00 +0200
              Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a  command line environment] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-06-29 16:40 +0200
                Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a  command line environment] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-29 17:50 +0200
          Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a  command line environment] davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2020-06-29 16:20 +0200
            Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a  command line environment] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-29 17:30 +0200
              Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a  command line environment] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-06-29 19:10 +0200
              Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a  command line environment] Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2020-06-29 19:50 +0200
          Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a  command line environment] David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-06-30 02:40 +0200
            Re: update-alternatives - was [Re: Installing/launching MATE in a  command line environment] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-30 12:40 +0200
        Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-06-29 14:40 +0200
          Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-06-29 14:40 +0200
          Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2020-09-13 01:00 +0200
            Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-09-14 14:30 +0200
              Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2020-09-14 16:20 +0200
  Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-06-28 17:20 +0200
    Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-28 18:10 +0200
      Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-06-28 22:00 +0200
        Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2020-06-28 22:50 +0200
          Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-06-29 14:40 +0200
            Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-06-29 14:50 +0200
            Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2020-06-29 19:00 +0200
    [SOLVED] Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-29 12:10 +0200
  Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-06-28 20:00 +0200
  Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2020-06-29 01:40 +0200
    Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-06-29 12:10 +0200
  Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-06-29 21:20 +0200

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