It may be necessary to disable SENSIBLE-BROWSER. echo $SENSIBLE-BROWSER to see if it's loaded.
Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Wed, 28 Sep 2022, jindam, vani wrote: > > A line like: > > export BROWSER=lynx > > in /etc/profile may help. > > i have updated ~/.profile, but it is not working > > > You don't indicate your desktop, which may be significant. > i am trying to use debian with least > packages. i dont have any desktop > environment. i have installed base system > + mc, default-jre, openbox, palemoon, lynx. > > my cli: > jindam@localhost:~$ ls /etc/alternatives/*www*browser* > /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser > /etc/alternatives/www-browser > /etc/alternatives/www-browser.1.gz > /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser > jindam@localhost:~$ ls -al /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser > lrwxrwxrwx 1 jindam jindam 13 Sep 27 20:07 /etc/alternatives/x-ww > w-browser -> /usr/bin/lynx > jindam@localhost:~$ ls -al /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser > lrwxrwxrwx 1 jindam jindam 17 Sep 27 19:13 /etc/alternatives/gnom > e-www-browser -> /usr/bin/palemoon > jindam@localhost:~$ ls -al $(which sensible-browser ) > -rwxr-xr-x 1 jindam jindam 1230 Jan 13 2021 /usr/bin/sensible-br > owser > > regards, > jindam, vani > > toots: @jindam_v...@c.im > others: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jindam_vani > >