Can a Debian system have alternate utilities?

[Rezadora]

Hello:
I was wondering if there's a way to have different implementations of some commands apart from the GNU ones without replacing them. For example, if there's a package that install BSD utilities with a prefix or something similar to tell them apart.

My intention is to use an implementation of tr that supports multi-byte characters. Unfortunately the GNU one doesn't support them. I'm aware there are alternatives to tr but I'd like to have an alternate tr that behaves like it should do.

Is there a package that installs different implementations without replacing the ones in coreutils? Would getting an implementation that behaves correctly and putting it somewhere it can be found in the PATH be a good idea?

Thanks in advance.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives

EDIT: https://packages.debian.org/buster/galternatives

[Rezadora]

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives

EDIT: https://packages.debian.org/buster/galternatives

Yes, this is exactly what I was looking for, thank you very much! I don't know why I didn't think of this, I've done this many times to set the default version of Java to use.

But what packages apart from coreutils contain commands? I'm afraid that if there are, they wouldn't just install a single command, right? What I just want a single command? Would it be better to just get it somewhere and include it in the PATH?

[Head_on_a_Stick]

The best option is to package up your custom tr version and patch the Makefile to change the binary name thus preventing conflicts.