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Aug
Installing Lynx on Red Hat AS 3.0
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Lynx – a text web browser for the World Wide Web

For some reasons, lynx was not installed by default on my Red Hat AS 3.0 VPS. I needed the said program for some things I’m working on the servers side so I decided install it. But instead of doing an RPM installation I decided to install from the source. Here are the steps I followed for installing the latest version of Lynx which is Lynx 2.8.5:

  • Download the source code here.
  • Move the downloaded source code to /usr/local/src (or any other folder of your choice).
    mv lynx2.8.5.tar.gz /usr/local/src
  • Uncompress the source code
    tar -zxvf lynx2.8.5.tar.gz
  • Delete the downloaded compressed file
    rm lynx2.8.5.tar.gz
  • Enter the lynx installation directory
    cd /usr/local/src/lynx2-8-5 (or the directory you chose from Step 2)
  • Run make
  • Run configure
  • Run make install

    • That’s it! The lynx binary would be installed by default on /usr/local/bin so that it would be included on your executable path.
    B-)
    [tags] lynx, text base web browser, web browser, WWW, World Wide Web, Red Hat, Internet[/tags]

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