GUI for the alternativates system

Galternatives is a GUI to help the system administrator to choose what program should provide a given service.

It updates the /etc/alternatives links, which defines default applications for the traditional Unix/Linux system, for example which java virtual machine should be used in case there are several versions installed on the system, which webbrowser will be launched etc.



Basically, it is a graphical front-end to the update-alternatives command-line tool.

Install on Ubuntu


sudo aptitude install galternatives


Finally, we could create a launcher in our main menu (System-->Preferences-->Main Menu):

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