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

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On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 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.
>
> I'm looking for something that aims to answer "What can
> update-alternatives do for me today?".

Have you reviewed any notes regarding what it did for you yesterday?

If so inclined, you could review the thread which begins with this
post:

lists.debian.org/msgid-search/1e117e50-2f61-a487-9663-9b0a8a5b2a0d@cloud85.net
  To: debian-user
  Subject: Configuring WebHTTrack as I WANT
  From: Richard Owlett
  Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018

> IOW the manpage gives fine details but no sense of perspective.

I find this claim puzzling. Possibly we are reading different documents?

  $ man update-alternatives # (in section 1, on my system, not 8)

  update-alternatives(1)   dpkg suite   update-alternatives(1)
  [...]
  DESCRIPTION

   update-alternatives creates, removes, maintains and displays
   information about the symbolic links comprising the Debian
   alternatives system.

   It is possible for several programs fulfilling the same or similar
   functions to be installed on a single system at the same time.  For
   example, many systems have several text editors installed at once.
   This gives choice to the users of a system, allowing each to use a
   different editor, if desired, but makes it difficult for a program
   to make a good choice for an editor to invoke if the user has not
   specified a particular preference.

   Debian's alternatives system aims to solve this problem.  A generic
   name in the filesystem is shared by all files providing
   interchangeable functionality.  The alternatives system and the
   system administrator together determine which actual file is
   referenced by this generic name.  For example, if the text editors
   ed(1) and nvi(1) are both installed on the system, the alternatives
   system will cause the generic name /usr/bin/editor to refer to
   /usr/bin/nvi by default.  The system administrator can override this
   and cause it to refer to /usr/bin/ed instead, and the alternatives
   system will not alter this setting until explicitly requested to do
   so.

   [...]

For a general overview, I would be hard pressed to improve on the
second and third paragraph above.

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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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