Default Lynx location

[mike64485]

I'm embarrassed to ask this but...
What is the default location for the Lynx web browser executable?

Thanks for the help!

Mike

[nitstorm]

i think it should be somewhere in /bin That's where most of the programs get stored

[ihaveapc]

$ which lynx
/usr/bin/lynx

Hope this helps

[mike64485]

I tried both suggestions. No luck. I tried just searching from root down in /bin, /etc, /sbin, and /usr/... where I found this link:

usr/bin/lynx

which pointed me to this file:

/etc/alternatives/lynx,

which pointed me to this file:

/usr/bin/lynx.cur,

which is a cursor file, and not executable. The properties page for this file does not point to any other file.

I also found config files and the original downloaded .tar.gzip file.

Further search under /usr/... did not provide any results.

Any other suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Lynx ver 2.8.8dev.2-1 text-mode browser, Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid)

Thanks again for your help!

Mike

[matt_symes]

Hi

where I found this link:

usr/bin/lynx

which pointed me to this file:

/etc/alternatives/lynx,

which pointed me to this file:

Yes you can follow the symlinks, but as you found they point to...

matthew@matthew-laptop:~/my_documents/my_tutorials$ readlink -e $(ls  $(which lynx))
/usr/bin/lynx.cur
matthew@matthew-laptop:~/my_documents/my_tutorials$

/usr/bin/lynx.cur

which is a cursor file, and not executable.

However...

matthew@matthew-laptop:~/my_documents/my_tutorials$ file /usr/bin/lynx.cur
/usr/bin/lynx.cur: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.15, stripped
matthew@matthew-laptop:~/my_documents/my_tutorials$

matthew@matthew-laptop:~/my_documents/my_tutorials$ cat /etc/lsb-release 
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS"
matthew@matthew-laptop:~/my_documents/my_tutorials$

matthew@matthew-laptop:~/my_documents/my_tutorials$ dpkg -l | grep lynx
ii  lynx                                  2.8.8dev.2-1                                    Text-mode WWW Browser (transitional package)
ii  lynx-cur                              2.8.8dev.2-1                                    Text-mode WWW Browser with NLS support (development version)
matthew@matthew-laptop:~/my_documents/my_tutorials$

That is the executable for me.

Kind regards