lynx in OS X

[modyouup]

I've recently been doing many of my operations on the terminal. One thing that I can't get to work for the life of me is lynx the UNIX web browser. I've installed it via the aqua installer from apple.com and I've tried installing it with fink manually through the terminal. Doing it with fink made it really look like it was doing something. But it still doesn't work.

From what I'm told I'm supposed to type:

% lynx "www.website.com"

and then thw site comes up. I'e tried all types of variations with this and it always gives me "command not found" ****. Waht's the problem?



Also, if anyone knows how to configure Pine, a UNIX mail client for remote mail rather than local mail, please let me know. I want to try and get my optonline.net address to work with it.

Thanks!

 

[arn]

Re: lynx in OS X

Originally posted by modyouup
From what I'm told I'm supposed to type:

% lynx "www.website.com"

and then thw site comes up. I'e tried all types of variations with this and it always gives me "command not found" ****. Waht's the problem?

First - I recommend "links" over "lynx" -- links is a much better text-based browser.

"Command not found" simply means the shell doesn't know where the command is.

It looks for commands in directories which are in your $PATH environment variable.

try this:

/sw/bin/lynx

and see if it works.

arn

 

[arn]

for further reference

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?threadid=11253&lynx

 

[modyouup]

Thanks arn! It worked by going to /sw/bin/lynx!

Do you know how I could fix it so it loads the way it's supposed to? (just typing lynx)

 

[arn]

Originally posted by modyouup
Thanks arn! It worked by going to /sw/bin/lynx!

Do you know how I could fix it so it loads the way it's supposed to? (just typing lynx)

including

"source /sw/bin/init.csh"

(without the quotes) into your ".cshrc" file in your home directory should do it.

Open Terminal and type "open .cshrc" and it should it in an editor. add the above line and save it. Then reopen a new terminal window and try it.

Seriusly... look into "links" - I think you can also get it from Fink. Much better than lynx.

arn

 

[modyouup]

Hmmm. There seems to be no .cshrc file in my home. I did a locate and there is a csh.cshrc file in /private/etc.

Tried opening that file and it says it cannot be opened. Tried it using sudo and still didn't work. Odd.

 

[arn]

Originally posted by modyouup
Hmmm. There seems to be no .cshrc file in my home. I did a locate and there is a csh.cshrc file in /private/etc.

Tried opening that file and it says it cannot be opened. Tried it using sudo and still didn't work. Odd.

Doesn't matter... create one in your home directory. That's the one that will be used (if there is anything in it)


arn

 

[modyouup]

Ahhh cool! Works now, thanks!