removing wslview from Ubuntu-only computers?

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Keith wrote:
>Little Girl wrote:

>> You and Oliver Grawert keep saying that, but are you both sure? The
>> description for the "firefox" package in the "Details" tab of my
>> package manager says:
>
>Yes, I'm sure. It's a transitional dummy package. It can be removed
>or left in place. In this case, to avoid the unintended consequence
>of not having a package which provides www-browser installed, it
>better to have it or another suitable package.

Okay.

>> A friend of mine believes that gvfs is the package that's needed to
>> solve this issue.

>This was true some time ago, but snap developers created the 
>system-packages-doc interface for snaps (particularly web browsers)
>to be able be to access documentation stored in some system
>directories like /usr/share/doc/* or specifically for 
>/usr/share/gimp/2.0/help/<locale>/*. The Firefox and Chromium snaps 
>support this interface and its enabled by default for both browsers.

Ah, okay. He had figured that out a year ago when this first
happened and I still had it in my notes.

>Here's what I did.
>
>1. Installed the Lynx text-based web browser. Actually, I always
>install Lynx after I complete a fresh install. I do this in case
>there's ever a problem with the graphical system and I'm forced to
>use a vt. So I already had a web browser in place that provides
>www-browser. I do not have the Firefox transitional deb package
>installed, but I do have the Firefox snap installed.

This sounds like a good idea to me. Instead of installing a
mostly-useless "firefox" package that only serves one purpose, I'd be
getting the "lynx" package as an on-demand-only backup in case my
graphical environment fails and also be satisfying the need for a
www-browser. Win/win.

>2. Installed gimp-help-en. Lynx provides www-browser, so apt did not 
>pull in wslu or any other package that supplies it.
>
>3. Start gimp, edit preferences to use local installed help files 
>instead of online help, and then click the menu help, and then help 
>again

Okay, I'll be doing this momentarily. It seems like the best
alternative to me. Thank you for all the detailed explanations.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.