Bug#923465: Update alternatives fixes problem

[Robert LeBlanc]

I followed what John did, except I did not uninstall freecad-python2 and
did not install freecad-python3. Running update-alternatives was enough to
resolved the issue. If the new package was supposed to do that, I don't
think it worked, at least upgrading from -4.

rleblanc at riker:~/code$ dpkg -l "*freecad*"
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend

|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                    Version           Architecture Description
+++-=======================-=================-============-===========================================================

ii  freecad                 0.18~pre1+dfsg1-5 all          Extensible Open
Source CAx program
ii  freecad-common          0.18~pre1+dfsg1-4 all          Extensible Open
Source CAx program - common files
un  freecad-doc             <none>            <none>       (no description
available)
ii  freecad-python2         0.18~pre1+dfsg1-4 amd64        Extensible Open
Source CAx program - Python 2 binaries
un  freecad-python3         <none>            <none>       (no description
available)
ii  freecad-runtime         0.18~pre1+dfsg1-4 all          Extensible Open
Source CAx program - runtime files
ii  libfreecad-python2-0.18 0.18~pre1+dfsg1-4 amd64        Extensible Open
Source CAx program - Python 2 library files
rleblanc at riker:~/code$ sudo update-alternatives --config freecad
There is only one alternative in link group freecad (providing
/usr/bin/freecad): /usr/lib/freecad/bin/freecad-python2
Nothing to configure.
update-alternatives: warning: forcing reinstallation of alternative
/usr/lib/freecad/bin/freecad-python2 because link group freecad is broken
rleblanc at riker:~/code$ freecad
FreeCAD 0.18, Libs: 0.18R
© Juergen Riegel, Werner Mayer, Yorik van Havre 2001-2019
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(2, 'No such file or directory', '/usr/share/freecad/examples')

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