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No usable browser found on Lubuntu

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Message #64 received at 9779 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Nix <nix <at> esperi.org.uk>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>, 9779 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9779: No usable browser found on Lubuntu
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:08:20 +0100

On 20 Oct 2011, Stefan Monnier uttered the following:

>> 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.)
>
> I prefer not to look for `chrome'.

I guess we'll have to hope that everyone renamed the browser the same
way as Debian, then (even though this is highly unlikely to be the
case).

-- 
NULL && (void)

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