How To Install links on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install links on CentOS 7. links is Web browser running in both graphics and text mode

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install links on CentOS 7.

Links is a web browser capable of running in either graphics or text mode. It provides a pull-down menu system, renders complex pages, has partial HTML 4.0 support (including tables, frames and support for multiple character sets and UTF-8), supports color and monochrome terminals and allows horizontal scrolling.

We can use yum or dnf to install links on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install links.

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install links using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install links

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install links using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install links

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

sudo dnf remove links

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install links on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.