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 12.2 platform.
Download (HTTP): http://links.twibright.com/download/links-2.30.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: dc56041551980c74dd354cd7c2882539
Download size: 6.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 36 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 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 libavif-1.1.1, libpng-1.6.43, libjpeg-turbo-3.0.1, librsvg-2.58.3, and libtiff-4.6.0
For decompressing web pages that are compressed with Brotli, Links can utilize Brotli-1.1.0
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-2.30 && install -v -m644 doc/links_cal/* KEYS BRAILLE_HOWTO \ /usr/share/doc/links-2.30
--enable-graphics
: This switch enables
support for graphics mode.
Links stores its configuration
in per-user files in the ~/.links
directory. These files are created automatically when
links is run for
the first time.