Comment 1 for bug 220080

I can confirm the bug is valid in lynx 2.8.6-2ubuntu2. You can easily bypass the bug by passing lynx a url as an argument. For example, instead of just running "lynx", run "lynx http://ubuntu.com". This keeps lynx from attempting to load the missing homepage, and bypasses the bug. I don't think adding ubuntu-docs as a dependency is the best solution. ubuntu-docs uses over 50 mb. I think it is a little overkill to install a 50 mb package when you only need a small html file. Having lynx not exit when it fails to load the homepage would be nice, but I'm not sure how easy this would be to implement. Most likely, this change would need to come from upstream. Here are some of my ideas:

1) Modify the lynx homepage to point to an actual URL. This would probably be the easiest solution. Lynx would either load the page, or it would display a 404 error if the page became unavailable.

2) Add the .html homepage to the lynx package. This would guarantee that it is available. The downside to this is that if we needed to update the homepage, we would need to update the lynx version and the version provided by ubuntu-docs.