ALTS(1)

💅 ALTS(1) — alts is literally your default-command manager

🌸 NAME 🌸

alts — manages preferred default commands. Periodt. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

alts [options]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so bestie, this whole thing is a default program manager, and its aim is to provide an alternative to the update-alternatives system without relying on symlinks. Instead of symlinks, it relies on configuration files. This allows for a simple per-system or per-user override of the default configuration. The way it just… does that? Main character energy, fr fr. It ate and left no crumbs. 🫶

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• alts -h — this help screen. Your “bestie, what is going on?” button. 😭
• alts -l[name] — list programs, or just one with the given name. Yes, the [name] part is optional, iykyk. 🦋
• alts [-u] [-s] -n <program> [-p <alt_priority>] — sets an override with a given priority as default. If priority is not set, then resets to default by removing override. Highkey important, no cap. 💅
  • -u — user override, default for non-root users. 🙈
  • -s — system override, default for root users. 👑
  • -n — program to override with a given priority alternative. 🌈

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• update-alternatives(1) — another page to peek at, bestie. Go give it a little look. 💜

🫶 Cute little sign-off: this page is from libalternatives version 1.0.0, dated 2021-07-07. Slay. 💖