galternatives(1)

galternatives1

A front-end to the update-alternatives

Usage

galternatives [OPTIONS ...] [Alternative Group]

Overview

galternatives is a front-end to the Debian update-alternatives tools. galternatives allows the user to specify a preferred application to handle commonly-used commands.

Options

-h, --help

Show help options

-d, --debug

Enable debug output

-n, --normal

Do not try to acquire root (as normal user)

--altdir ALTDIR

Specify the alternatives directory

--admindir ADMINDIR

Specify the administrative directory

--log LOG

Specify the log file

Releases

10 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 4.0–9
  2. 10–13

--admindir since Debian 10 (Buster); --altdir since Debian 10 (Buster); --debug since Debian 10 (Buster); --help since Debian 10 (Buster); --log since Debian 10 (Buster); --normal since Debian 10 (Buster); -d since Debian 10 (Buster); -h since Debian 10 (Buster); -n since Debian 10 (Buster).

Author

This manual page is written by Andrew Burton ⟨adb@\:iinet.net.au⟩, Yangfl ⟨mmyangfl@\:gmail.com⟩ for the Debian Project (but may be used by others).

From galternatives 1.0.10 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.