Lynx browser on OS X?

Nov 05, '00 11:08:41PM

Contributed by: robg

osxfaq.com has provided instructions on how to compile lynx, an excellent text-mode web browser.

From a terminal, try this:

wget http://lynx.isc.org/lynx-2.8.3/lynx2.8.3.tar.gz
tar zxvf lynx2.8.3.tar.gz
cd lynx2-8-3
cp /usr/libexec/config.guess .
./configure
make
su
make install

No guarantees, as I haven't tried this myself yet!

NOTE: You will have to have the compiler installed for this to work!
The compiler is available from Apple, and MacAddict has published a nice tutorial on how to install it. Again, I have not yet tried this myself (too much of a UNIX neophyte!).

SECOND NOTE: See the new tip on the 'links' text browser, posted 11/15/2000, for an alternative to lynx.

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