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no method available for opening http localhost 8000

asked 2016-06-20 15:46:31 +0100

JEFLSU gravatar image

I have built Sage 7.2 from source on a Red Hat machine, and when I try to start a notebook server, I get

/usr/bin/xdg-open: line 402: htmlview: command not found

/usr/bin/xdg-open: line 402: firefox: command not found

/usr/bin/xdg-open: line 402: mozilla: command not found

/usr/bin/xdg-open: line 402: netscape: command not found

/usr/bin/xdg-open: line 402: links: command not found

/usr/bin/xdg-open: line 402: lynx: command not found

xdg-open: no method available for opening 'http://localhost:8080?startup_token=a19cd71a527ae07b9d079e9e71c73c5a'

Now, I've looked at http://ask.sagemath.org/question/9162... and http://www.linuxquestions.org/questio... but the machine is shared, so I don't want to go around messing with anything in /usr/bin. I don't have direct access (or ability to install an X-client on the physical machine I'm using), so I can't check there is a browser installed on the machine I put Sage on.

Is there a way to work around this just within Sage? I didn't see anything that answered this here in ask, or in Sage for Power Users. Perhaps I can't fix this without better access to the machine I put Sage on. In that case, I'll just have to run Sage from command line. But it's nice to have notebook access.

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answered 2016-06-20 16:52:30 +0100

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updated 2016-06-20 17:03:14 +0100

Once you start the notebook server you can connect to it

  1. from the same machine, or
  2. from another machine.

I suppose your usecase is 1...

You can tell Sage which browser to use by setting the environment variable SAGE_BROWSER.

See the related question http://ask.sagemath.org/question/9355/change-default-web-browser/.

You should try to figure out which web browsers are available on the machine you are using.

This list of Linux web browsers might help with that.

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I've learned a bit more about the machine - it seems likely there are no browsers installed at all, it being a data server. I'll ask it which for the browsers in the list and see if I can get a hit, then try to set the default browser.

JEFLSU gravatar imageJEFLSU ( 2016-06-20 17:35:47 +0100 )edit

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