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#1
Member
Registered: Jan 2011
Posts: 332
Rep:
broken lynx
I was trying to use lynx with the --dump option and I kept getting an error message and web searches kept telling me I needed to edit the config file. After several failed attempts I reinstalled lynx but I think it kept using my old config files so I uninstalled lynx and manually removed the files in /etc/lynx/ after that my lynx installation/uninstallation has been broken.
#2
Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2020
Posts: 3,688
Rep:
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Garrett85
I uninstalled lynx and manually removed the files in /etc/lynx/
Have you removed
~/.lynxrc as well?
Also,
Code:
sudo apt purge lynx-common
The problem is
/etc/lynx/lynx.* are not part of package
lynx , they're part of package
lynx-common .
Last edited by shruggy; 01-06-2022 at 03:49 PM .
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#3
Member
Registered: Jan 2011
Posts: 332
Original Poster
Rep:
that worked thanks! two more questions
Quote:
Originally Posted by
shruggy
Have you removed
~/.lynxrc as well?
Also,
Code:
sudo apt purge lynx-common
The problem is
/etc/lynx/lynx.* are not part of package
lynx , they're part of package
lynx-common .
I didn't have a ~/.lynx file but your 2nd command fixed my problem, thanks! I had ran `sudo apt-get remove --purge lynx`, (I know I might have just gotten the arguments wrong and or out of order) and thought that had completely removed all traces of it. What's the common thing all about? Why didn't --purge get it all the first time?
Also, this is the issue I was having that got me installing & uninstalling and removing files for lynx to begin with, any ideas what's going wrong here?
$ lynx --dump
https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs.../packages.html
Looking up
www.linuxfromscratch.org
Making HTTPS connection to
www.linuxfromscratch.org
lynx: Can't access startfile
https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs.../packages.html
#4
Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2020
Posts: 3,688
Rep:
1) Debian is very modular. Debian developers would break packages into smaller parts whenever possible and seems reasonable.
2) Debian
ships for many architectures . It often makes sense for Debian to split out common parts into a separate, architecture-independent package.
Code:
dpkg-query -Wf'${Architecture}\t${binary:Package}\n' lynx\*|
grep '^\w'
While the second point doesn't directly apply to Ubuntu or other derivatives, they use Debian as their base and rarely change Debian packaging unless absolutely necessary.
I hope all this will help you to understand what
debbug#797442 was about.
Also see the concerned Lintian tag
arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share and section
6.8.5. Architecture-independent data of
Debian Developer's Reference (the Lintian tag mentions it but with a wrong section number).
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Garrett85
I cannot reproduce your issue on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Can you open the page in lynx interactively, i.e. without
-dump ?
Last edited by shruggy; 01-07-2022 at 12:53 PM .
#5
Member
Registered: Jan 2011
Posts: 332
Original Poster
Rep:
Quote:
Originally Posted by
shruggy
1) Debian is very modular. Debian developers would break packages into smaller parts whenever possible and seems reasonable.
2) Debian
ships for many architectures . It often makes sense for Debian to split out common parts into a separate, architecture-independent package.
Code:
dpkg-query -Wf'${Architecture}\t${binary:Package}\n' lynx\*|
grep '^\w'
While the second point doesn't directly apply to Ubuntu or other derivatives, they use Debian as their base and rarely change Debian packaging unless absolutely necessary.
I hope all this will help you to understand what
debbug#797442 was about.
Also see the concerned Lintian tag
arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share and section
6.8.5. Architecture-independent data of
Debian Developer's Reference (the Lintian tag mentions it but with a wrong section number).
I cannot reproduce your issue on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Can you open the page in lynx interactively, i.e. without
-dump ?
Yes, if I just run lynx it works fine, it's only when I use the --dump argument that I get that error.
#6
Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2020
Posts: 3,688
Rep:
A similar thread on LQ. Which begs the question: what user are you running lynx as?
Also, does
-dump work with other console browsers (
elinks ,
links2 ,
w3m )? BTW,
w3m and
links2 are more picky about options than
lynx and
elinks : you have to specify
-dump with one dash.
Can the URL be dumped with
edbrowse ?
Code:
echo ,p|
edbrowse -d0 https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter03/packages.html
Another option is piping to
html2text
Code:
curl -s https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter03/packages.html|
html2text
Of course,
wget ,
wget2 , etc. can substitute for
curl , while
lynx ,
elinks , etc. can substitute for
html2text .
Last edited by shruggy; 01-08-2022 at 08:02 AM .
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