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Installed Program: links
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: /usr/share/doc/links-2.30
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 12.4 platform.
Download (HTTP): http://links.twibright.com/download/links-2.30.tar.bz2
Download SHA256 Sum: c4631c6b5a11527cdc3cb7872fc23b7f2b25c2b021d596be410dadb40315f166
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 "x-window-system"
For decoding various image formats Links can utilize libavif-1.3.0, libpng-1.6.50, libjpeg-turbo-3.0.1, librsvg-2.61.3, and libtiff-4.7.1
For decompressing web pages that are compressed with Brotli, Links can utilize "brotli" Brotli-1.2.0
Prepare 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.