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Re: odd question re man pages

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On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 21:01, gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:

> debian 11.1, 64 bit net-install updated yesterday.
>
> I've noted that there can be links to a web page in a man page that are
> underscored if you click on them while reading the man page, but clicking
> the link does not do anything.  Is it supposed to send the default browser
> to that page? If so, where should I check for the broken linkage?

Hi. Well, you need to install whatever the terminal program calls to
implement this functionality (plus a default browser obviously).
Possibly 'xdg-open' utility in the 'xdg-utils' package. Works here.
It might need configuration, I can't remember. Try it and see.

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odd question re man pages gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-07 11:10 +0100
  Re: odd question re man pages David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2022-01-07 11:30 +0100
    Re: odd question re man pages gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-07 12:10 +0100
      Re: odd question re man pages David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2022-01-07 12:20 +0100
        Re: odd question re man pages gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-07 18:10 +0100
      Re: odd question re man pages Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-01-07 14:10 +0100
        Re: odd question re man pages gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-07 18:20 +0100
  Re: odd question re man pages "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-01-07 12:50 +0100
    Re: odd question re man pages Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-07 13:40 +0100
      Re: odd question re man pages Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-01-07 14:20 +0100
        Re: odd question re man pages Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-07 14:20 +0100
          Re: odd question re man pages "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-01-07 14:20 +0100
    Re: odd question re man pages gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-07 18:20 +0100
  Re: odd question re man pages Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2022-01-07 15:20 +0100
    Re: odd question re man pages Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-01-07 17:30 +0100
      Re: odd question re man pages Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2022-01-07 19:20 +0100
        Re: odd question re man pages Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-01-07 19:50 +0100
  Re: odd question re man pages Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2022-01-08 00:50 +0100
    Re: odd question re man pages gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-08 05:20 +0100

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