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update-alternatives

Maintain symbolic links determining default commands

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Maintain symbolic links determining default commands

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Project identity

Project
update-alternatives
Publisher
Not authoritatively mapped
Native package records
1
Operating systems
opensuse-leap-15-6
License expression
GPL-2.0+
Metadata completeness
100/100 (not a software quality rating)
Homepage
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Source repository
Not reported

Source-reported description

The fullest retained description is shown with its source. Distribution packaging descriptions may include downstream details.

update-alternatives creates, removes, maintains and displays information about the symbolic links comprising the 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 of editor to invoke if the user has not specified a particular preference.

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openSUSE Leap 15.6

  1. update-alternatives

    openSUSE Leap 15.6 / System/Management / source update-alternatives

    1.19.0.4-150000.4.4.1

    Maintain symbolic links determining default commands

    aarch64ppc64les390xx86_64leap-15.6

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Mapping provenance

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