Links is a text and graphics mode WWW browser. It includes support for rendering tables and frames, features background downloads, can display colors and has many other features.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 11.3 platform.
Download (HTTP): http://links.twibright.com/download/links-2.28.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 915c45777f0c9d8e6ec85438cbd7d3df
Download size: 6.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 35 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU
Graphics mode requires at least one of GPM-1.20.7 (mouse support to be used with a framebuffer-based console), SVGAlib, DirectFB , and a graphical environment
For decoding various image formats Links can utilize libpng-1.6.39, libjpeg-turbo-2.1.5.1, librsvg-2.54.5, and libtiff-4.5.0
For decompressing web pages that are compressed with Brotli, Links can utilize Brotli-1.0.9
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/LinksBrowser
Install Links by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man && make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root
user:
make install && install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/doc/links-2.28 && install -v -m644 doc/links_cal/* KEYS BRAILLE_HOWTO \ /usr/share/doc/links-2.28
--enable-graphics
: This switch enables
support for graphics mode.