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On 2007-02-23, Thomas Kuehn  wrote:
> 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 ;-).

This is an interesting utility.  I'd have modified the link by hand,
but this worked like a charm to change it.  I then ran
'update-alternatives --all' just to play with it, and that made for an
interesting run through the system's symlinks.  Did not even take very
long.

thank you!
K

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