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Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives

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On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 09:12:54AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Sb, 04 apr 20, 12:32:06, Carl Fink wrote:
> > So, I removed firefox-esr and replaced it with stable firefox. I ran
> > update-alternatives to point to firefox-esr. The current listing doesn't
> > even include firefox-esr:
>  
> This makes no sense to me, could you please rephrase? What browser do 
> you have installed right now? How did you install firefox-esr and 
> firefox?

Right now, stable Firefox from mozilla.org binary. Previously, the firefox-esr
package from Debian Stable, installed and removed using apt.

> > root@debian-NUCi5:~# update-alternatives --list x-www-browser
> > /usr/bin/chromium
> > /usr/bin/epiphany-browser
> > /usr/bin/firefox
> > /usr/bin/surf
> 
> Please post the output of
> 
>     update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

carlf@debian-NUCi5:~$ update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
There are 4 choices for the alternative x-www-browser (providing /usr/bin/x-www-browser).

  Selection    Path                       Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0            /usr/bin/epiphany-browser   85        auto mode
  1            /usr/bin/chromium           40        manual mode
  2            /usr/bin/epiphany-browser   85        manual mode
  3            /usr/bin/firefox            20        manual mode
  4            /usr/bin/surf               30        manual mode

Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 



Note that the current selection 3 was added after I posted (by manually
creating a .desktop file).  And that doing that had no effect on how rclone
reacted--it still tried to launch a nonexistent firefox-esr.

I worked around the problem by making a symbolic link from
/usr/bin/chromium to /usr/bin/firefox-esr (because I do all my
organizational Google stuff, and only Google stuff, using Chromium, to keep
organizational Google stuff separate from my personal things).

(Then I found out that rclone, despite having the motto "rsync for cloud
storage", doesn't actually do what rsync does, which was disappointing.)
-- 
Carl Fink                                                  carl@finknetwork.com 
https://reasonablyliterate.com                           https://nitpicking.com 
If you want to make a point, somebody will take the point and stab you with it. 
	-Kenne Estes

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x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> - 2020-04-04 18:50 +0200
  Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-05 08:20 +0200
    Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> - 2020-04-05 13:40 +0200
      Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-05 14:40 +0200
        Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2020-04-05 16:00 +0200
          Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-04-05 18:00 +0200
            Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> - 2020-04-05 22:30 +0200
          Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2020-04-05 20:10 +0200
            Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> - 2020-04-05 22:30 +0200
              Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-06 10:00 +0200
                Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2020-04-06 11:50 +0200
                Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-06 12:20 +0200
                Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2020-04-06 12:40 +0200

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