Problem Installing Lynx
 

Hey guys. I installed Lynx and everything seemed to go as planned until I actually tried to <em>start it</em>. Here is the error message.

Can't Access `file://localhost/usr/share/ubuntu-artwork/home/index.html'
Alert!: Unable to access document.

lynx: Can't access startfile

What exactly does this mean and how can I fix it? Thanks.

Lynx is looking for the start html, it gives explanations how to use it
but can't find it

how did you install lynx?
you also need to install lynx-cur
take a look in
/etc/lynx-cur/lynx.cfg
for the configuration.

you need to be root sudo lynx those are privileged files and to run lynx in root is not a good thing to do. especially if your online. then to top it off I thought lynx was a standard part of all installs was on my ubuntu and slackware and mandriva. not sure about all of them but mincom and lynx was a base components of linux. Been wrong many times though. try this instead just to look. this will get you there but you need to be root to change anything in that directory. but if the directory is not there then oh well

no you don't have to be root to run lynx
repo@cannabis:~$ whereis lynx
lynx: /usr/bin/lynx /usr/bin/lynx.cur /usr/share/man/man1/lynx.1.gz
repo@cannabis:~$

lynx is just a text browser

I know I had to edit something froze on the screen could not finish.

you said that you not me. said

Another good text browser is links

I misunderstood you, sorry for that.

apt-get me a beer I am ready for the sudo asylum LOL. lynx does recognize file://