Re: odd question re man pages
On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 21:01, gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> debian 11.1, 64 bit net-install updated yesterday.
>
> I've noted that there can be links to a web page in a man page that are
> underscored if you click on them while reading the man page, but clicking
> the link does not do anything. Is it supposed to send the default browser
> to that page? If so, where should I check for the broken linkage?
Hi. Well, you need to install whatever the terminal program calls to
implement this functionality (plus a default browser obviously).
Possibly 'xdg-open' utility in the 'xdg-utils' package. Works here.
It might need configuration, I can't remember. Try it and see.
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