source: basicnet/textweb/links.xml@ 1ad30c22

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY links-download-http "http://links.twibright.com/download/links-&Links-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY links-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY links-md5sum        "8c4bc1ebbf4962d290df8218bfc21413">
  <!ENTITY links-size          "4.1 MB">
  <!ENTITY links-buildsize     "25 MB">
  <!ENTITY links-time          "0.3 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="Links" xreflabel="Links-&Links-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="links.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Links-&Links-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="Links">
    <primary sortas="a-Links">Links</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Links</title>

    <para><application>Links</application> is a text and graphics mode
    WWW browser. It includes support for rendering
    tables and frames, features background downloads, can display colors
    and has many other features.</para>
    
    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&links-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&links-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &links-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &links-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &links-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &links-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
      <listitem>
        <para>Recommended patch: <ulink
          url="&gentoo-ftp-repo;/links-&Links-version;-utf8.diff.bz2"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Do I Need the Patch and Do I Have to Enable
    Graphics Support?</bridgehead>

      <para>In text mode, <application>Links</application> cannot be
      configured to use UTF-8 encoding for the terminal input/output. This
      limitation renders <application>Links</application> useless as a
      text-based browser in UTF-8 locales. See general discussion of this
      type of issue in the <xref linkend="locale-not-valid-option"/> section
      on the <xref linkend="locale-issues"/> page.
      The patch fixes all these issues with an exception of Chinese locale,
      when there isn't an available character set.
      Note: You have to check the "UTF-8 I/O" box in "Terminal options" and
      set the character set (probably an 8-bit) in the Setup menu.
      </para>

      <para>In graphical mode,
      <application>Links</application> displays text correctly even in
      UTF-8 locales, if all characters exist in the built-in font used by
      <application>Links</application>. Form submission in UTF-8 locales
      is handled correctly when running in X11-based (but not framebuffer-based)
      graphical mode.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Links Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="gpm"/>,
    <xref linkend="openssl"/>,
    <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
    <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
    <xref linkend="libtiff"/>,
    <xref linkend="pcre"/>,
    <!-- SDL support is removed upstream until someone fixes it
    <xref linkend="sdl"/>,
    -->
    <ulink url="http://www.svgalib.org/">SVGAlib</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://www.directfb.org/">DirectFB</ulink>, and
    <xref linkend="x-window-system"/></para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/LinksBrowser"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Links</title>
   
   <para>If desired, apply the patch:</para>

<screen><userinput>bzcat ../links-&Links-version;-utf8.diff.bz2 | patch -p1 &amp;&amp;
cd intl &amp;&amp;
./gen-intl &amp;&amp; ./synclang &amp;&amp;
cd ..
</userinput></screen>
   
   <para>Install <application>Links</application> by running the following
    commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role='root'><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/doc/links-&Links-version; &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 doc/links_cal/* KEYS BRAILLE_HOWTO \
    /usr/share/doc/links-&Links-version;</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>
    
    <para><command>./gen-intl &amp;&amp; ./synclang</command>: These commands
    regenerate the language table.</para>
    
    <para><option>--enable-graphics</option>: This switch enables support
    for graphics mode. You will either need to install the
    <application>X</application> Window System or enable frame buffer support in
    your kernel and install <xref linkend="gpm"/>.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring Links</title>

    <sect3 id="links-config">
      <title>Config Files</title>

      <para><filename>~/.links/*</filename></para>

      <indexterm zone="Links links-config">
        <primary sortas="e-AA.links/*">~/.links/*</primary>
      </indexterm>

    </sect3>

    <sect3>
      <title>Configuration Information</title>

      <para><application>Links</application> stores its configuration in per-user
      files in the <filename class="directory">~/.links</filename> directory. These
      files are created automatically when <command>links</command> is run for the
      first time.</para>
      
      <para>For the correct display of non-ASCII characters, <application>Links</application>
      has to be configured through the menu (accessible by pressing the ESC key),
      as follows:</para>
      
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>If running <application>Links</application> in the text mode,
          go to the <quote>Setup &gt; Character set</quote> menu item and select the character
          set that matches your locale.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Optionally, go to the <quote>Setup &gt; Language</quote> menu
          and select the user interface language.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Finally, select the <quote>Setup &gt; Save options</quote>
          menu item.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Program</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>links</seg>
        <seg>None</seg>
        <seg>/usr/share/doc/links-&Links-version;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="links">
        <term><command>links</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a text and graphics mode WWW browser.</para>
          <indexterm zone="Links links">
            <primary sortas="b-links">links</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>