How To Install elinks on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install elinks in Fedora 36. elinks is A text-mode Web browser

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install elinks on Fedora 36.

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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install elinks.

Install elinks on Fedora 36 Using dnf

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

Install elinks on Fedora 36 Using yum

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

How To Uninstall elinks on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove elinks

elinks Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/elinks.conf
/usr/bin/elinks
/usr/bin/links
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/89
/usr/lib/.build-id/89/382ff5f4c214cd4da31ecff145c52ec9ce091c
/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

elinks website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install elinks on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).