How To Install lynx.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

Introduction

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

What is `lynx.x86_64`

Lynx is a text-based Web browser. Lynx does not display any images, but it does support frames, tables, and most other HTML tags. One advantage Lynx has over graphical browsers is speed; Lynx starts and exits quickly and swiftly displays web pages.

We can use yum to install lynx.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lynx.x86_64.

Install lynx.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 lynx.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lynx.x86_64

How To Uninstall lynx.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove lynx.x86_64

lynx.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/lynx-site.cfg
/etc/lynx.cfg
/etc/lynx.lss
/usr/bin/lynx
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/INSTALLATION
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/README
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/CHANGES2.3
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/CHANGES2.4
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/CHANGES2.5
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/CHANGES2.6
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/CHANGES2.7
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/CHANGES2.8
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/CRAWL.announce
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/FM.announce
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/IBMPC-charsets.announce
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/OS-390.announce
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/README.TRST
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/README.chartrans
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/README.cookies
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/README.defines
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/README.jp
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/README.metrics
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/README.options
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/README.release
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/README.rootcerts
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/README.ssl
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/README.sslcerts
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/SOCKETSHR.announce
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/TCPWARE.announce
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/VMSWAIS.announce
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/djgpp.key
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/pdcurses.key
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/slang.key
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/docs/win-386.announce
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx.hlp
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx_help
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx_help/Lynx_users_guide.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx_help/about_lynx.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx_help/help_files.txt
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx_help/keystrokes
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx_help/keystrokes/alt_edit_help.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx_help/keystrokes/bashlike_edit_help.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx_help/keystrokes/bookmark_help.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx_help/keystrokes/cookie_help.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx_help/keystrokes/dired_help.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx_help/keystrokes/edit_help.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx_help/keystrokes/environments.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx_help/keystrokes/follow_help.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx_help/keystrokes/gopher_types_help.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx_help/keystrokes/history_help.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx_help/keystrokes/keystroke_help.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx_help/keystrokes/movement_help.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx_help/keystrokes/option_help.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx_help/keystrokes/other_help.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx_help/keystrokes/print_help.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx_help/keystrokes/scrolling_help.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx_help/keystrokes/test_display.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx_help/keystrokes/visited_help.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx_help/keystrokes/xterm_help.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx_help/lynx-dev.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/lynx_help/lynx_url_support.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/samples
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/samples/blue-background.lss
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/samples/bright-blue.lss
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/samples/cernrules.txt
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/samples/home.htm
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/samples/installdirs.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/samples/jumps.htm
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/samples/jumpsUnix.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/samples/jumpsVMS.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/samples/keepviewer
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/samples/lynx-demo.cfg
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/samples/lynx-keymaps
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/samples/lynx.bat
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/samples/lynx.com
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/samples/lynx.ico
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/samples/lynx.lss
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/samples/lynx_bookmarks.htm
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/samples/lynxdump
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/samples/mailcap
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/samples/mailto-form.pl
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/samples/midnight.lss
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/samples/mild-colors.lss
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/samples/mime.types
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/samples/oldlynx
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/samples/opaque.lss
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/test
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/test/ALT88592.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/test/ISO_LATIN1_test.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/test/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/test/TestComment.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/test/bad-html.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/test/c1.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/test/cp-1252.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/test/cp-1252a.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/test/iso-8859-1.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/test/iso-8859-1a.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/test/iso-8859-2.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/test/iso-8859-2a.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/test/koi8-r.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/test/quickbrown.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/test/raw8bit.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/test/sgml.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/test/spaces.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/test/special_urls.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/test/tabtest.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/test/tags.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/test/test-styles.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/test/unicode.html
/usr/share/doc/lynx-2.8.8/test/utf-8-demo.html
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/lynx.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/lynx.1.gz

References

lynx.x86_64 website

Summary

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