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DH_INSTALLALTERNATIVES(1) Debhelper DH_INSTALLALTERNATIVES(1)
dh_installalternatives - install declarative alternative rules
dh_installalternatives [debhelper options]
dh_installalternatives is a debhelper program that is responsible
for parsing the declarative alternatives format and insert the
relevant maintscripts snippets to interface with
update-alternatives(1)
debian/package.alternatives
An example of the format:
Name: editor
Link: /usr/bin/editor
Alternative: /usr/bin/vim.basic
Dependents:
/usr/share/man/man1/editor.1.gz editor.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/vim.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/editor.1.gz editor.fr.1.gz /usr/share/man/fr/man1/vim.1.gz
/usr/share/man/it/man1/editor.1.gz editor.it.1.gz /usr/share/man/it/man1/vim.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pl/man1/editor.1.gz editor.pl.1.gz /usr/share/man/pl/man1/vim.1.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man1/editor.1.gz editor.ru.1.gz /usr/share/man/ru/man1/vim.1.gz
Priority: 50
The fields Link, Name, Alternative, and Priority are mandatory
and correspond to the update-alternatives(1) --install
parameters link, name, path, and priority respectively.
The Dependents field is optional and consists of one or more
lines. Each non-empty line must contain exactly 3 space
separated values that match (in order) the values passed to
the --slave parameter for update-alternatives(1).
-n, --no-scripts
Do not modify postinst/postrm/prerm scripts.
debhelper(7)
This program is a part of debhelper.
This page is part of the debhelper (helper programs for
debian/rules) project. Information about the project can be found
at [unknown -- if you know, please contact man-pages@man7.org] If
you have a bug report for this manual page, send it to
submit@bugs.debian.org. This page was obtained from the project's
upstream Git repository
⟨https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debhelper.git⟩ on 2025-02-02.
(At that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found
in the repository was 2025-01-19.) If you discover any rendering
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corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
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Pages that refer to this page: debhelper(7)
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