SOLVED: help installed but audacity can't launch browser

[fitzhugh]

I suspect this problem lies outside of audacity, but I have only seen it with audacity. I have a near-fresh install of AV Linux with 1.3.10 beta out of debian testing repositories.
When I click on any of the llinks on the "How to get help" startup screen nothing appears to happen, though when I start audacity from the shell and try clicking those same links I see the following errors:

grep: write error: Bad file descriptor
egrep: write error: Bad file descriptor

Those two lines repeat each time I click one of the links on that page. I checked and /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser is set.

I installed the same setup on a second computer at the same time and it works fine, though I installed a lot more on that machine, including konqueror, and it uses konqueror to display the links.

I'd like to fix this because I'm setting up the one that doesn't display the help for a friend who will want to use the manuals locally.

Thanks for any help or suggestions!

[steve]

I installed the same setup on a second computer at the same time and it works fine, though I installed a lot more on that machine, including konqueror, and it uses konqueror to display the links.

Do you have a web browser installed on the first machine? The second machine has Konqueror configured as the default application for web links so it works. Whether using on-line or local help files the files are in html format and require a browser to view. I think the default browser for LXDE is Firefox.

[fitzhugh]

Thanks for replying - I posted that late at night and wasn't clear: I have firefox and set as default via debian's

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ln -s /usr/bin/firefox /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser

but that was not sufficient.

I hadn't thought to google for how lxde and openbox set defaults instead of the underlying debian, so thanks to the above suggestions I did so and learned about xdg-mime

But... tuned out I just needed to

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export BROWSER='firefox'

in ~/.bashrc