Surfing Internet on Terminal

sarojrokr
  12 years ago
  1

Everyone used to browse website on different web-browser but do you know how to do browsing on Linux Terminal ?
For this  there is a tool named as lynx in which you can run any website from  in linux terminal.You need to install the tool as follows :-

$ sudo apt-get install lynx

 

The apt package manager lists the packages that need to be installed. Just press 'y' n then ‘Enter’, for the installation to continue

After this installation no need to reboot your system. To confirm if it is working ,  type  lynx "name of website "  on your terminal.

$ lynx www.google.com

 

On screen press y for allowing cookies.

It may ask several times to allow cookies.

But don't afraid of cookies because cookies are piece of text stored by a user's web browser. A cookie can be used for authentication, storing site preferences,the identifier for a server-based session etc.

Comments
blueXrider 12 years ago

elinks, links2 and w3m are also available for text-only web browsing.