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/etc/cron.daily/man-db:
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz is a dangling symlink
Now, I have followed the symlink mentioned in th email to /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz which again points to usr/X11R6/man/man1/xterm.1x.gz
And as far as I'm able to determine the /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xterm.1x.gz is an ordinary man page.
tina@sleepless:~$ file /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz: broken symbolic link to `/etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz'
tina@sleepless:~$ file /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz
/etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz: broken symbolic link to `/usr/X11R6/man/man1/xterm.1.gz'
tina@sleepless:~$ file /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xterm.1x.gz
/usr/X11R6/man/man1/xterm.1x.gz: gzip compressed data, was "xterm.1x", from Unix, max compression
The real funny thing is that I tried to remove and recreate the symlinks and still get the same error.
However: I cannot find a package called "x-terminal-emulator" and the manpage the symlinks points to is for "xterm". And since I use "man xterm" anyway I guess simply deleting the non-working symlinks should be safe..?
This is a bug in xterm that I haven't bothered to track down yet, and neither has my comaintainer (who's mainly responsible for the package). It's been filed in the BTS though in several places iirc, so next time I devote some time to xterm I'll be sure to fix it.
However: I cannot find a package called "x-terminal-emulator" and the manpage the symlinks points to is for "xterm". And since I use "man xterm" anyway I guess simply deleting the non-working symlinks should be safe..?
Tina
There is no package called x-terminal-emulator. It is part of the alternatives system, which I believe is unique to Debian and very cool once you understand it. Alternatives keeps track of what you install through apt and keeps a list of applications that perform the same function. When you have multiple applications that perform the same function, the alternatives system allows you to choose which one is the default. For instance, you have w3m, links, and lynx installed (all web browsers for the command line). By default, w3m will open if you issue the command 'www-browser'. This can be changed (as root) via the command 'update-alternatives --config www-browser'.
So the command x-terminal-emulator should open what ever is defined by the alternatives system as your default x terminal. By default, I believe, it is lxterm.