web surfing ... from darwin

[vic]

how would i learn to surf the web in darwin without the osx gui?

 

[endian]

go to links.sourceforge.net and download & build links, type links www.yahoo.com and away you go!

 

[slur]

There's also a pre-built version of 'links' posted on my mac.com homepage.

 

[rharder]

Yeah, links is a great text web browser and handles complex layouts much better than lynx.

-Rob

 

[vic]

i dloaded links and i don't know how to start it, i tried links http://blahblah.com

but it didn't work, i tried links man /man links to no avail

i'm not sure it put the things in the right places... help.

 

[slur]

You'll want to make sure 'links' is intalled in the right place. I recommend /usr/local/bin simply because by default this is part of your default path. Any time you install a new binary you'll want to type rehash to get the shell to see it in your path. You can see your current executable path by typing env | grep PATH or set | grep path (case-sensitive!). Look for /usr/local/bin.

Do you know where your copy of 'links' was installed? The version I'm providing always puts things into /usr/local/bin but you can find out where your install went using sudo find /usr -name links and entering your admin password.

The correct way to view any man page is to enter man <topic>