Bug 772764 - jwhois has a missing dependency on lynx
Summary: jwhois has a missing dependency on lynx
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: jwhois
Version: 6.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Vitezslav Crhonek
QA Contact: BaseOS QE - Apps
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-01-09 22:17 UTC by Kurt Seifried
Modified: 2012-01-11 11:22 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-01-11 11:22:05 UTC
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Description Kurt Seifried 2012-01-09 22:17:57 UTC 
Description of problem:

jwhois (whois tool) has a missing dependecy on lynx (command line web browser)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

jwhois-4.0-19.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:

$ whois paas.io
[Querying http://www.io.io/cgi-bin/whois]
[HTTP: Unable to run web browser: /usr/bin/lynx: No such file or directory]

Actual results:

reports lynx is missing

Expected results:

it uses lynx to do the web page retrieval

Additional info:

jwhois.texi/jwhois.conf specifies the "browser-pathname" as "/usr/bin/lynx", this is then used in src/http.c, so chances are lynx can be replaced with elinks without to much trouble.
Comment 2 Vitezslav Crhonek 2012-01-11 11:22:05 UTC 
Explanation is the same as in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772765
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