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[solved] Can I soft link a non existing executable to an existing one? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Edit: while waiting for your replies, my PAM lockout/timeout reset and I was able to try. It worked. 🤣

I am trying to open the cloud provider Internxt's desktop app. I have Librewolf installed, which I'm sure is going to work as a substitute for Firefox. Can I

ln -s /usr/bin/librewolf /usr/bin/firefox

to make their app use Librewolf instead, thinking it's actually executing Firefox? If not, would an alias work?

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[–] 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

https://askubuntu.com/questions/18418/how-can-i-set-which-application-is-launched-by-xdg-open

You might want to configure xdg to open what you want instead.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Thanks! I'll bookmark this since I should learn xdg someday, but not today. 🤣 For now, this ln fakery worked. 😅

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    You can use the update-alternatives command with the x-www-browser key to create the symlink and let the system manage it.

    It seems to me that having the symbolic link in /usr/bin would cause an error if you tried to install Firefox. It might be better to place the symlink in /usr/local/bin.

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