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No usable browser found on Lubuntu

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From: Nix <nix <at> esperi.org.uk>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>, 9779 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9779: No usable browser found on Lubuntu
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:47:25 +0100

On 18 Oct 2011, Juri Linkov said:
> I agree that we should not search for the executable "chrome"
> which is not free software.  So below is a new patch
> that supports only free software version "Chromium".

If you build Chromium yourself from source code, it actually
creates only an executable called 'chrome' and a manpage
'chrome.1': i.e., even the free version calls itself after
the non-free version. (Of course, since Chromium doesn't
contain an installation target, everyone has to write their own, and
maybe everyone has chosen to create such a symlink. But this
doesn't seem like something that it is safe to rely on.)

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NULL && (void)

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