Re: default web browser

[Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>]

On 17 Apr 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 16 Apr 2009, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> > 
> > mark@debian:~$ update-alternatives --list x-www-browser
> > bash: update-alternatives: command not found
> > mark@debian:~$ su
> > Password: 
> > debian:/home/mark# update-alternatives --list x-www-browser
> > /usr/bin/iceweasel
> > debian:/home/mark# update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
> > 
> > There is only 1 program which provides x-www-browser
> > (/usr/bin/iceweasel). Nothing to configure.
> > debian:/home/mark# 
> > 
> > So, given that OpenOffice.org is still using lynx when I choose the
> > "more dictionaries online" option, what do I do now?
> > 
> 
> What does sensible-browser give? I'm interested because I also have a
> problem of this kind. I want reportbug to use dillo to show bug reports,
> and the man page says that it uses sensible- browser to decide which
> browser to use for this. I therefore put "export BROWSER = dillo" in
> ~/.bashrc and sensible-browser does indeed give dillo, but reportbug 
> still wants to use firefox.
> 
> I've run update-alternatives on the lines suggested above and I'll see
> what happens.
> 

After running the update-alternatives commands, reportbug now uses dillo
as I wanted it to.

Anthony


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