Editing Debian alternatives graphically with galternatives
Have you ever been tinkering under the hood only to discover later that you blew up one of your defaults? Say your default web-browser, so that when you click a link from email it opens Firefox instead of Konqueror or vice-versa. Well I know I have. Here we'll look at how to fix this, graphically.
How do we fix these little issues? The standard answer is go to command line and update the correct "alternative". That is if you can remember the correct alternative package or remember the command line to spit out the list of alternative packages. Ooops I can't remember because its not something I have to do on a regular basis, time to go to IRC and see if anyone is feeling generous enough to help out.
Nope, dead silence today. OK, so that leaves me google. I find I can go look in /etc/alternatives/ to find what I think is the right one and then run:
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