Lynx is a text based web browser.
Download (HTTP): http://lynx.isc.org/release/lynx2.8.5.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://lynx.isc.org/lynx2.8.5/lynx2.8.5.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: d1e5134e5d175f913c16cb6768bc30eb
Download size: 2.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 23 MB
Estimated build time: 0.55 SBU
OpenSSL-0.9.7e or GnuTLS (which needs libgpg-error, libgcrypt and opencdk, in that order), MTA, Zip-2.31, UnZip-5.51, slang-1.4.9, ncompress and sharutils
Install Lynx by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/etc \
--with-zlib --with-bzlib &&
make &&
make install &&
make docdir=/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.5/lynx_doc \
helpdir=/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.5/lynx_help install-doc &&
make docdir=/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.5/lynx_doc \
helpdir=/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.5/lynx_help install-help &&
chgrp -R root /usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.5/lynx_doc
--libdir=/etc: For some reason, the configure and make routine for Lynx uses libdir as the prefix for the configuration file. This is set to /etc so that the system wide configuration file is /etc/lynx.cfg.
--with-zlib: This enables support for linking libz into Lynx.
--with-bzlib: This enables support for linking libbz2 into Lynx.
docdir=... helpdir=...: These variables are set to avoid getting the help and documentation files installed under /etc.
--with-ssl: This enables support for linking SSL into Lynx.
--with-gnutls: This enables support for linking GnuTLS into Lynx.
chgrp -R root /usr/share/doc/lynx/2.8.5/lynx_doc: This command corrects the improper group ownership of installed documentation files caused if Lynx is built by any user other than root.
The Lynx package contains lynx.
Last updated on 2005-02-10 20:12:06 -0700