[plug] awk

[Russell Steicke]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:20:40PM +0800, Adam Hewitt wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am trying to get the modem in my ibook to work with the linuxant
> drivers and I am getting an error stating that it requires awk version
> 3.1.0 or higher. I am running Debain Sid and from what I can see there
> is no awk package, only gawk and mawk.
> 
> Is there a way for me to convince this program that I am actually
> running awk 3.1.0 or does anyone have another idea on how I could go
> about doing this??

Try

  dpkg -l gawk

and

  gawk --version

to confirm you have gawk 3.1.0 or higher installed.  Then do

  update-alternatives  --display awk

to see whether mawk or gawk is the default awk.  If it's mawk, do

  update-alternatives --config awk

as root to change the default.  This will alter the
/etc/alternatives/awk symlink to point to /usr/bin/gawk.




-- 
Russell Steicke

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