How to Install galternatives software package in Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak)

How to Install galternatives software package in Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak)

galternatives software package provides graphical setup tool for the alternatives system, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) by running the commands given below on the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install galternatives 

galternatives is installed in your system.

Make ensure the galternatives package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep galternatives *

You will get with galternatives package name, version, architecture and description in a table

galternatives package basic information:

Distro Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak
Section Administration Utilities
Package galternatives
Version 0.13.5+nmu4
Description graphical setup tool for the alternatives system
Sub Section admin


See Also, How to uninstall or remove galternatives software package from Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak)?