How To Install elinks.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install elinks.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. elinks.x86_64 is A text-mode Web browser

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install elinks.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `elinks.x86_64`

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 to install elinks.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install elinks.x86_64.

Install elinks.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install elinks.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install elinks.x86_64

How To Uninstall elinks.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the elinks.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove elinks.x86_64

elinks.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/elinks.conf
/usr/bin/elinks
/usr/bin/links
/usr/share/doc/elinks-0.12
/usr/share/doc/elinks-0.12/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/elinks-0.12/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

elinks.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install elinks.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.