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Description of problem: jwhois (whois tool) has a missing dependency 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.
Well, any text-based browser could be configured by the user in /etc/jwhois.conf. Why should jwhois add a dependency to a specific one? Why should jwhois change the default to elinks? IMHO to be closed with NOTABBUG.
I agree with Robert. Kurt, just install browser you prefer and configure jwhois to use it in /etc/jwhois.conf. You can find additional explanation here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553567
jwhois uses lynx by default so it should have lynx as a default. Or we should add a requires like "text-based-www-browser" and add that as a provides to lynx/elinks/etc. Either way it would be nice if jwhois worked out of the box rather then being partially broken out of the box (and it seems like the trend is for DNS registrars to go more WWW based so it will only get worse).