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From: Thomas Kuehn 
Subject: Re: Automake 1.9 on Ubuntu Dapper 6.06
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:43:20 +0100
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> I do not know enough about automake, but it confuses me that it says
> 1.9 is installed, and the system only presents 1.4.  Until now, I
> never had a problem with it and did not touch it.

Some hints for newbees: apropos _searchterm_ gives help where to find
more help. Switching automake versions is done in /etc/alternatives so
typing 'apropos alternatives' in a konsole prints out on my system:

update-alternatives (8) - maintain symbolic links ...
update-java-alternatives (8) - update alternatives ...

Browsing the manual page 'man update-alternatives' give the hint that
'update-alternatives --config automake' will give you a prompt to change
the default automake installation. Because it's ubuntu, it might be a good
idea to type a 'sudo' before the command ;-).

In another thread is a discussion about command line vs. GUI. I'm tied to
command line, but a 'apt-cache search alternatives' spits out that there
is a graphical alternative named (surprisingly) "galternatives".

With best regards
 Thomas
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