How To Install elinks on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elinks on Ubuntu.
What is elinks
elinks is:
ELinks is a feature-rich program for browsing the web in text mode. It is like enhanced Lynx and Links. The most noteworthy features of ELinks are:
- Lots of protocols (local files, finger, HTTP(S), FTP, IPv4/6 etc.)
- Internationalized domain names
- Persistent cookies, HTTP authentication and proxy authentication
- Tabbed browsing, good looking menus and dialogs, and key-binding manager
- History browsing and typeahead searches
- Forms history and completion, and history in commonly used input dialogs
- CSS support and support for browser scripting (Perl, Lua, Guile etc.)
- Tables and frames rendering, and configurable color support
- Compressed and background (non-blocking) downloads, and download resuming
This package is based on felinks fork, since original elinks seems to be no longer maintained.
There are three methods to install elinks on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install elinks Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install elinks using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elinks
Install elinks Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elinks using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elinks
Install elinks Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install elinks using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elinks
How To Uninstall elinks on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the elinks package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elinks
Uninstall elinks And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elinks and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove elinks
Remove elinks Configurations and Data
To remove elinks configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elinks
Remove elinks configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elinks configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elinks
Dependencies
elinks have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elinks package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.