Changes to the Default Package Version
When you install applications in directories that identify their versions, multiple versions can coexist at the same directory level. To identify the default version of a given application, create a generic directory name as a symbolic link pointing to the version-named directory that you want to serve as the default.
In the following example, the /usr/apps/pkgs directory contains two versions of FooTool and a generic footool name link.
$ cd /usr/apps/pkgs $ ls -ld footool* lrwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nobody 12 Jun 19 1992 /usr/apps/pkgs/footool -> footool,v1.0 drwxr-xr-x 9 nobody nobody 512 Jun 18 1992 /usr/apps/pkgs/footool,v1.0 drwxr-xr-x 9 nobody nobody 512 May 3 21:23 /usr/apps/pkgs/footool,v2.0 $
The default ...
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