How To Install elinks on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elinks on Fedora 34.
What is elinks
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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install elinks.
Install elinks on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install elinks using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install elinks
Install elinks on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install elinks using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install elinks
How To Uninstall elinks on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the elinks package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove elinks
elinks Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/elinks.conf
/usr/bin/elinks
/usr/bin/links
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c/d08b4bb7687024f5b36f0034664ffe1560a418
/usr/share/doc/elinks
/usr/share/doc/elinks/README
/usr/share/licenses/elinks
/usr/share/licenses/elinks/COPYING
/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.