Re: About alternatives in stretch - testing.........

2015-05-15 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 16 May 2015 14:41:09 +1000 Charlie sent: > Since you gave the way of how to discover what I need to know, I > googled it and found that link. Alternatives works now: Did: apt-mark hold libgnutls-deb0-28 That held it. Upgraded and I saw that it upgraded chromium and now it works. Thank

Re: About alternatives in stretch - testing.........

2015-05-15 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 16 May 2015 14:26:23 +1000 Charlie sent: > On Fri, 15 May 2015 19:52:38 -0600 Bob Proulx sent: > > > For me when I installed claws just now as a test, set x-www-browser > > to chromium, and then clicked on a link to open in a web browser > > window it opened chromium. Therefore it isn't

Re: About alternatives in stretch - testing.........

2015-05-15 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 15 May 2015 19:52:38 -0600 Bob Proulx sent: > For me when I installed claws just now as a test, set x-www-browser to > chromium, and then clicked on a link to open in a web browser window > it opened chromium. Therefore it isn't a systematic problem. It must > be something in your enviro

Re: About alternatives in stretch - testing.........

2015-05-15 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 15 May 2015 19:52:38 -0600 Bob Proulx sent: > Very likely the alternatives for x-www-browser are correct. Did you > try it? Please try it and check that it works. Check that it returns > a non-zero exit code. > > $ x-www-browser > $ echo $? > > What starts? Chromium? Then your

Re: About alternatives in stretch - testing.........

2015-05-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Charlie wrote: > A question about alternatives in stretch: > $ update-alternatives --config x-www-browser > * 1 /usr/bin/chromium 40 manual mode >... > In claws-mail press a URL and it opens in iceweasel. Sounds like claws does not call x-www-browser but instead calls iceweasel directly. However

About alternatives in stretch - testing.........

2015-05-15 Thread Charlie
A question about alternatives in stretch: 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt9-3 (2015-04-23) x86_64 GNU/Linux I do: $ update-alternatives --config x-www-browser Selection Path Priority Status 0 /usr/bin/iceweasel 70 auto mode