update-alternatives, list alternatives?

From	Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	update-alternatives, list alternatives?
Date	2016-09-16 16:20 +0200
Message-ID	<si29H-5Pq-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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I'm having another headache...

I want to make Icedove the default mail client.
I had this done on the last Jessie system I had (on a now defunct hdd).
But I can't recall how I did it, if it was with update-alternative or 
some other means..
And something that's been bothering me for a while is:
I can't seem to find or figure out how to list all the alternatives I 
can manage with update-alternatives.
I mean, I can get a list for a particular item, like x-www-browser or 
editor, but I want a list of all those possible things to update 
(x-www-browser, editor, etc.)
Is there such a list somewhere?
Thanks,
Tony

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update-alternatives, list alternatives? Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2016-09-16 16:20 +0200
  Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2016-09-16 16:40 +0200
    Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2016-09-16 17:00 +0200
      Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2016-09-16 17:10 +0200
      Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-09-16 17:50 +0200
      Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-09-17 00:30 +0200
        Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2016-09-17 01:00 +0200
          Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? Anthony Baldwin <baldwinlinguas@gmx.com> - 2016-09-17 01:30 +0200
          Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-09-17 04:40 +0200
    Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2016-09-16 21:20 +0200
      Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? Anthony Baldwin <baldwinlinguas@gmx.com> - 2016-09-16 23:10 +0200
        Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us> - 2016-09-16 23:50 +0200
      Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-09-17 00:50 +0200
        Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2016-09-17 01:00 +0200
          Re: update-alternatives, list alternatives? Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us> - 2016-09-17 01:10 +0200

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