Lynx and Panther hate me. :(

phatcactus

The Ugly Organist
I am running Panther, and tonight, I tried to install Lynx. So I found a nice little 2.8.4 package installer (http://www.osxgnu.org/software/Networking/lynx/), because compiling from source and I never really made friends, and gave it a run. I ignored the warning that it was a "Jaguar only install," assuming it was simply oldish and would run fine on a newer system.

O! How foolish!

Lynx will not run. :'( Typing `which lynx` in the Terminal returns: no lynx in /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin. Can anyone tell me where oh where my Lynx has gone, so that I might put it in one of those fine directories and run it in all its text-only glory?

Otherwise, can someone show me -- step-by-step, very, very slowly -- how it might be installed in another way?

O! This cursed command line!
 
Did it install it in /usr/local/bin? Try this:

find /usr -name lynx

See what it spits out. If it's there, you'll just need to add the directory to your path.
 
What are you, some kind of freaky evil genius?

Thank you very much. :) It was indeed in /usr/local/bin and find sure did find it.

You're my new hero. Thanks!
 
I'd like to install lynx under 10.3.5 but the lynx installer warns:

THIS VERSION OF LYNX 2.5.8.d16-SSL
WILL ONLY INSTALL on OS X 10.2.x (Jaguar)
This Version of Lynx DOES support SSL(https)

Is there a version for Panther? Or am I misinterpreting this warning?
 
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