How To Install elinks on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install elinks on Rocky Linux 8. elinks is A text-mode Web browser

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install elinks on Rocky Linux 8.

Elinks is a text-based Web browser. Elinks does not display any images, but it does support frames, tables and most other HTML tags. Elinks’ advantage over graphical browsers is its speed–Elinks starts and exits quickly and swiftly displays Web pages.

We can use yum or dnf to install elinks on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install elinks.

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install elinks using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install elinks

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install elinks using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install elinks

To uninstall only the elinks package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove elinks
/etc/elinks.conf
/usr/bin/elinks
/usr/bin/links
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/28
/usr/lib/.build-id/28/fd9c56c0978fe196518a2dad810e49ec1ad818
/usr/share/doc/elinks
/usr/share/doc/elinks/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/elinks/README
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/elinks.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/elinks.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/links.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/elinks.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/elinkskeys.5.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install elinks on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.