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rob18767
Asked: 2018-08-16 10:33:06 +0800 CST

Ubuntu Server and lack of default (text) web browser with Barracuda Web Login

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Where I work we have a Barracuda web login that I log into my company internet via an intranet web browser.

As Ubuntu Server (16.04) does not appear to have a browser I cannot use apt-get.

Apparently US used to come with w3m as a default browser (which would be nice) however at the moment I cannot get anywhere.

server browser internet default-browser

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Install this package first

    https://ubuntu.pkgs.org/16.04/ubuntu-updates-main-amd64/libgc1c2_7.4.2-7.3ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb.html

    and w3m will install afterwards.

    *update - This did not work but lynx did.

    Installed this first

    https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/lynx-common

    Then Lynx itself

    https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/amd64/lynx/download

    And I got to my company login page.

    Practically flying along now getting stuff done.

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  2. If you can access the internet from a different machine, you can download the deb file to a usb stick and manually install it on your server. If you are using 64 bit, do the following (if 32 bit replace the 64 in the link with 32 and follow same directions)

    Download the .deb file and copy it to a thumb drive. Mount the thumb drive on your server and navigate to it (eg cd /media/user/drive ). Now you can manually install the browser like this:

    dpkg --install w3m_0.5.3-26ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb
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