Lynx-2.8.6

Introduction to Lynx

Lynx is a text based web browser.

Package Information

Lynx Dependencies

Optional

OpenSSL-0.9.8d or experimentaly, GnuTLS (which needs libgpg-error then libgcrypt), Zip-2.32, UnZip-5.52, an MTA (that provides a sendmail command), and sharutils (for a uudecode program)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Lynx

Installation of Lynx

Install Lynx by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --sysconfdir=/etc/lynx \
            --datadir=/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.6 \
            --with-zlib \
            --with-bzlib \
            --with-screen=ncursesw \
            --enable-locale-charset &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install-full &&
chgrp -v -R root /usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.6/lynx_doc

Command Explanations

--sysconfdir=/etc/lynx: This parameter is used so that the configuration files are located in /etc/lynx instead of /usr/etc.

--datadir=/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.6: This parameter is used so that the documentation files are installed into /usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.6 instead of /usr/share/lynx_{doc,help}.

--with-zlib: This enables support for linking libz into Lynx.

--with-bzlib: This enables support for linking libbz2 into Lynx.

--with-screen=ncursesw: This switch enables the use of advanced wide-character support present in the system NCurses library. This is needed for proper display of characters and line wrapping in multibyte locales.

--enable-locale-charset: This switch allows Lynx to deduce the proper character encoding for terminal output from the current locale. A configuration step is still needed (see below), but, unlike the situation without this switch, the configuration step becomes the same for all users (without the switch, one would have to specify the display charcter set explicitly). This is important for environments such as a LiveCD, where the amount of system-specific configuration steps has to be reduced to the minimum.

--enable-nls: This switch allows Lynx to print translated messages (such as questions about cookies and SSL certificates).

--with-ssl: This enables support for linking SSL into Lynx.

--with-gnutls: This enables experimental support for linking GnuTLS into Lynx.

make install-full: In addition to the standard installation, this target installs the documentation and help files.

chgrp -v -R root /usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.6/lynx_doc: This command corrects the improper group ownership of installed documentation files caused if Lynx is built by any user other than root.

Configuring Lynx

Config Files

/etc/lynx/lynx.cfg

Configuration Information

The proper way to get the display character set is to examine the current locale. However, Lynx does not do this by default. Change this setting:

sed -i 's/#\(LOCALE_CHARSET\):FALSE/\1:TRUE/' /etc/lynx/lynx.cfg

Many other system-wide settings such as proxies can also be set in the /etc/lynx/lynx.cfg file.

Contents

Installed Program: lynx
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: /etc/lynx and /usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.6

Short Descriptions

lynx

is a general purpose, text-based, distributed information browser for the World Wide Web.

Last updated on 2007-01-30 14:24:11 -0600