lubuntu - minimal install ; no browser means `ubuntu-bug` is broken

[Chris Guiver]

Lubuntu noble installed using minimal install option.

Side effect of no browser, will be if user discovers a bug, running `ubuntu-bug` ends up with a terse xdg-open method error.

At the very least; this will need to be documented (ie. users will find they do need a web browser to be installed for some features), or another alternative utilized. This was reported on IRC days ago (launchpad file delayed)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: lubuntu-default-settings 24.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-9.9-generic 6.5.3
Uname: Linux 6.5.0-9-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.27.0-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: LXQt
Date: Tue Dec 12 18:24:51 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-12-11 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" - Daily amd64 (20231210.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: lubuntu-default-settings
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

An end-user may have encountered this (variation of it anyway)

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2494907

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If you really will «Lubuntu minimal» you will of course never install Firefox as it is a really terrible ugly «gas fabric» say the German people themselves for unrealistic complex apparatus.

so I install Luakit or Epiphany browser...

But you have no user right actually in 24.04!!!
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[ԜаӀtеr Ⅼарсһуnѕkі (wxl)]

Before the report sends, it certainly does say that it will open the report in the web browser. If one's paying attention, one should realize they don't have one. It actually tells you this twice. If you go all the way through, you do get xdg-open's usual "no method" complaint.

For that matter, should we choose to solve this with documentation, people will have to pay close attention to the documentation we provide to realize it won't work. The fact that the Ubuntu wiki page on reporting bugs doesn't really expressly mention the requirement of the browser further complicates things, but there again, they'd have to pay attention.

My suggestion? Don't require a browser. I'm inclined to call this an apport bug. Even when looking at what folks do with Ubuntu Server, they still require a (text-based) browser and yet there are bugs that reference how that doesn't work (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/997020), either, so as far as I can tell, it's still a problem.