Q Blank browser
On page 85 of LXF307 is an item about the Min browser. I would like to use it, so I downloaded the DEB file. When I ran it, I found that it needed some extra files. These were gconf2, gconf-service and gconf-service-backend. I installed these files and made a fresh start. The program loaded and provided its icon.
When starting there are two options: Start Browsing or Take A Tour. I took the tour, which worked OK, but when I started the browser, all I got was a blank screen. Please help me to get it working properly! I am using Ubuntu 23 LTS.
Bryan Mitchell
A Ubuntu 23.04 and 23.10 are not LTS releases, or was this a typo and did you mean you are running Ubuntu 22 LTS? We tried with 22.04 (LTS) and 23.04 with the same results. The problem appears to be that Min was installed on the first attempt, but not set up correctly because of the missing gconf dependencies. The solution was to run: $ sudo apt -fix-broken install to clean things up, then: $ sudo apt install gconf-service
This pulls in the other gconf-related dependencies. Then reinstall the Min DEB package with:
$ sudo dpkg -i min-1.29.0-amd64.deb
Min should work correctly now; it does here. If you still have problems, try running it from a terminal with:
$ min
This will not magically make it work, but it should provide some messages that indicate what is going wrong. When we installed the gconf dependencies but did not reinstall this is whatworked as you would expect.
