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.
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In the text mode, Links cannot be configured to use UTF-8 encoding for the terminal output. This limitation renders Links useless as a text-based browser in UTF-8 locales. See general discussion of this type of issue in the Needed Encoding Not a Valid Option section on the Locale Related Issues page.
In the graphical mode, Links displays text correctly even in UTF-8 locales, if all characters exist in the built-in font used by Links. Form submission in UTF-8 locales is handled correctly when running in X11-based (but not framebuffer-based) graphical mode.
Download (HTTP): http://links.twibright.com/download/links-2.1pre23.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 4a1fb575c133eee821b9a1f8e9220b40
Download size: 3.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 20.5 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU
GPM-1.20.1, OpenSSL-0.9.8e, libpng-1.2.16, libjpeg-6b, LibTIFF-3.8.2, PCRE-7.0, SVGAlib, DirectFB, and X Window System
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/LinksBrowser
Install Links by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr && make CFLAGS="-O2 -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-pointer-sign"
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install &&
install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/doc/links-2.1pre23 &&
install -v -m644 doc/links_cal/* KEYS BRAILLE_HOWTO \
/usr/share/doc/links-2.1pre23
CFLAGS="-O2 -Wno-sign-compare
-Wno-pointer-sign": Disable printing of many warnings
about mismatched signs in parameter passing and comparison
operations during compilation.
--enable-graphics: Add this switch if
you want to use Links in graphics
mode. You will either need to install the X Window System or enable frame buffer support
in your kernel and install GPM-1.20.1.
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.
For the correct display of non-ASCII characters, Links has to be configured through the menu (accessible by pressing the ESC key), as follows:
If running Links in the text mode, go to the “Setup > Character set” menu item and select the character set that matches your locale.
Optionally, go to the “Setup > Language” menu and select the user interface language.
Finally, select the “Setup > Save options” menu item.
Last updated on 2007-04-04 21:42:53 +0200