How To Install elinks-data on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install elinks-data on Ubuntu 18.04. elinks-data is advanced text-mode WWW browser - data files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install elinks-data on Ubuntu 18.04.

elinks-data 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 contains the data files that are necessary to use ELinks.

There are three methods to install elinks-data on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-data using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install elinks-data

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install elinks-data

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

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install elinks-data

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

sudo apt-get remove elinks-data

To uninstall elinks-data and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove elinks-data

To remove elinks-data configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge elinks-data

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elinks-data

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install elinks-data package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.