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links terminal web browser

Links is a text mode browser... Not sure what you mean by 'graphical' mode?

What are you trying to accomplish here, maybe we can help get you there?

From the website, on their features page:

reply to LazMan
Links can be run on the following platforms. On all of them Links works in text mode and in graphics mode under the X-Window system. With some operating systems, additional supported graphics systems are included in parentheses.
AIX
AtheOS (AtheOS graphics environment)
BeOS
Cygwin under Windows
FreeBSD
FreeMint
HPUX
Irix
Linux (Xorg, SVGAlib, framebuffer)
MacOS X
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS/2 (Pmshell)
Solaris
SunOS
Tru64
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Why are you so surprised to see sinners in church? Are you shocked to see sick people in a hospital too?

reply to nu2this
Did you compile it yourself?

If not, where did you install it from? It probably has to be compiled with graphical support.
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i downloaded it through fink

or should i say installed it via Fink

any while we are talking about cool stuff in Terminal... (as I am just now having the desire to start to use it for so much more)... what other cool uses can you do with terminal besides web browser and email (mutt)?
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Why are you so surprised to see sinners in church? Are you shocked to see sick people in a hospital too?

reply to nu2this
The package in Fink is the older version of Links that does not have Javascript or a graphical interface:

»www.jikos.cz/~mikulas/links/

It looks like Brew has the 2.7 version:
»braumeister.org/formula/links

To install Brew:
»mxcl.github.com/homebrew/
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thanks... got Brew... now should it work by just typing...

brew install links

? it installs it and when i get back to the $, I put links -g and no good. doesn't recognize the -g
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Why are you so surprised to see sinners in church? Are you shocked to see sick people in a hospital too?

Did you uninstall the fink version?

probably: fink remove links or fink uninstall links
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reply to nu2this
You can use IRC of course

»www.irssi.org/download

reply to nu2this
Once you get the old version uninstalled, try specifying the driver in the CLI, in this case X11:

links -g -driver x www.google.com

reply to nu2this

reply to Thinkdiff
yes... thanks

reply to Thinkdiff
i installed with brew, but it says that Graphics not enabled when compiling.

I went back and tried to ./configure --help but it is saying No such file or directory.

please help
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Why are you so surprised to see sinners in church? Are you shocked to see sick people in a hospital too?

ok... crazy... but now closer

i stumbled across the way to get to where i was the other day... and here is where i am now...

Last login: Sun Dec 16 09:08:11 on ttys000
admin:~ admin$ links -g
Graphics not enabled when compiling
admin:~ admin$ cd Downloads/links-2.7
admin:links-2.7 admin$ ./configure --enable-graphics
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no
checking for EMX... no
checking for OpenWatcom... no
checking for typeof... yes
checking for long long... yes
checking for pointer comparison bug... no
checking for maxint conversion bug... no
checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes
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checking for inline... inline
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checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h
checking size of unsigned short... 2
checking size of unsigned... 4
checking size of unsigned long... 8
checking size of unsigned long long... 8
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checking for requested debug level... 0
checking if you want to use graphics... yes
checking if you want to enable UTF-8 terminal... yes
checking for pow in -lm... yes
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checking OPENSSL_CFLAGS...
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checking for libpng >= 1.0.0... yes
checking LIBPNG_CFLAGS... -I/opt/X11/include/libpng15
checking LIBPNG_LIBS... -L/opt/X11/lib -lpng15
checking for png.h... yes
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checking for png_create_info_struct... yes
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configure: error: No graphics drivers found.
admin:links-2.7 admin$
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Why are you so surprised to see sinners in church? Are you shocked to see sick people in a hospital too?

No graphics drivers found...

can someone point out my obvious mistake please?

edit~ this is the page that i am working from: »links.twibright.com/download.php

Try adding --with-svgalib or --with-x as an argument to your configure.

admin:~ admin$ cd Downloads/links-2.7
admin:links-2.7 admin$ links --with-svgalib
Unknown option --with-svgalib
admin:links-2.7 admin$ links --with-x
Unknown option --with-x
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Why are you so surprised to see sinners in church? Are you shocked to see sick people in a hospital too?