How To Install elinks on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install elinks on Kali Linux. elinks is advanced text-mode WWW browser

Introduction

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

elinks is:

ELinks is a feature-rich program for browsing the web in text mode. It is like enhanced Lynx and Links. The most noteworthy features of ELinks are:

  • Lots of protocols (local files, finger, HTTP(S), FTP, IPv4/6 etc.)
  • Internationalized domain names
  • Persistent cookies, HTTP authentication and proxy authentication
  • Tabbed browsing, good looking menus and dialogs, and key-binding manager
  • History browsing and typeahead searches
  • Forms history and completion, and history in commonly used input dialogs
  • CSS support and support for browser scripting (Perl, Lua, Guile etc.)
  • Tables and frames rendering, and configurable color support
  • Compressed and background (non-blocking) downloads, and download resuming

This package is based on felinks fork, since original elinks seems to be no longer maintained.

There are three methods to install elinks on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install elinks using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install elinks

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install elinks

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install elinks

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

sudo apt-get remove elinks

To uninstall elinks and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove elinks

To remove elinks configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge elinks

We can use the following command to remove elinks configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elinks

Dependencies

elinks have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install elinks package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.