alternatives

Manage symbolic links for default commands

TLDR

This command is an alias of update-alternativesView documentation for the original command
$ tldr update-alternatives

SYNOPSIS

alternatives

DESCRIPTION

alternatives maintains symbolic links that determine the default command run for a given generic name (for example which java or editor is used). It lets several packages provide the same functionality and select between them.On Debian and Ubuntu, alternatives is simply another name for update-alternatives, which ships as part of dpkg. On Fedora, RHEL, and related distributions it is a separate implementation provided by the chkconfig package, with similar but not identical behavior. See update-alternatives for the full Debian documentation.

INSTALL

sudo dnf install alternatives
yay -S alternatives

SEE ALSO

update-alternatives(1)

RESOURCES

Source code · Documentation