Re: [Lynx-dev] ANN: lynx2.9.0

[Thomas Dickey]

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Chime Hart" <chime@hubert-humphrey.com>
| To: "Thomas Dickey" <dickey@his.com>
| Cc: "Thorsten Glaser" <tg@mirbsd.de>, "lynx-dev" <lynx-dev@nongnu.org>
| Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2024 8:29:53 AM
| Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] ANN: lynx2.9.0

| Well, Thomas-and-All, I seemingly ran a successful install, however a number 
of
| my settings are gone. Looks like I am still useing a lynx.cfg of my own, but a
| remapping of extern page-and-link are mentioned in errors. Also, viewing pages
| with a "v" from Alpine didn't like "nested tables" But the worst, it won't 
load
| pages with an "ssl" You would think a newer install would check for these
| settings-and-not completely treat as a new install. Can folks please inform,
| how can I get things back to normal? O, this is Debian SID. Thanks so much in
| advance.

ssl (openssl or gnutls) is a configure option.

If you don't specify --prefix for the configure option, it'll go into /usr/local

So it sounds as if you have /usr/local/bin/lynx, whose lynx.cfg differs from 
the system's lynx.
(The location of lynx.cfg is also a configure option, allowing for instance 
/etc/lynx/lynx.cfg).

Debian's packages change these configure options.
If you have /usr/local/bin/lynx now, I'd just "sudo rm /usr/local/bin/lynx"

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
https://invisible-island.net