What happened to Lynx the text based command-line browser for Linux?

For those of you not aware of what Lynx is it is a command line browser that help you search the internet if at all possible with this text based browser, so you can get things done from command-line either before you install the GUI or if you prefer not to install the GUI. What happened to Lynx for Linux though and why can't I download it from it's default repository? I thought Linux was about getting things done at the command line and in the GUI as well as automating tasks, so how can you still do this without it from command-line only interfaces. Please don't tell me this was removed or discontinued because it was considered a security threat because in all actuality anything can be and the last thing users need is for Linux to be like Microsoft and do what they did with Internet Explorer. Can anyone answer this question.

1983 was many years ago...

All jokes aside I couldn't find documentation on current support.

You can use Links or Links2, those are good command line browsers

scharfshutze009 said:

For of you not aware of what Lynx is it is a command line browser that help you search the internet if at all possible with this text based browser, so you can get things done from command-line either before you install the GUI or if you prefer not to install the GUI. What happened to Lynx for Linux though and why can I download it from it's default repository? I thought Linux was about getting things done at the command line and in the GUI as well as automating tasks, so how can you still do this without it from command-line only interfaces. Please don't tell me this was removed or discontinued because it was considered a security threat because in all actuality anything can be and the last thing users need is for Linux to be like Microsoft and do what they did with Internet Explorer. Can anyone answer this question.

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A quick search for "Lynx browser" returned lynx/browser.org see the Lynx Installation Guide. Hope this helps.

Also ELinks and W3M

Did you even try to install it? There is a package for both ubuntu and centos that I just checked in the default repos.

# yum install lynx
or
# apt-get install lynx

tbg said:

Did you even try to install it? There is a package for both ubuntu and centos that I just checked in the default repos.

# yum install lynx
or
# apt-get install lynx

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yes of I did sudo apt-get install lynx

if using ubuntu or a debian distro

or

sudo yum -y install lynx

if using Redhat or a Redhat distro

and it said package not found

It may have been because it was on the Oracle Linux System with the full /var partition that even if it was before it became full from the second install of 7.2 it might have still been full because I didn't realize until the second install that 4 GB is no longer enough in Redhat 7 distros if not 6 as well.

In fact I just did it for ubuntu and it worked as follows:

username@hostname:~$ sudo apt-get install lynx
[sudo] password for username:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for username:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for username:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libntdb1 linux-headers-3.19.0-25 linux-headers-3.19.0-25-generic
linux-headers-3.19.0-58 linux-headers-3.19.0-58-generic
linux-image-3.19.0-25-generic linux-image-3.19.0-58-generic
linux-image-extra-3.19.0-25-generic linux-image-extra-3.19.0-58-generic
linux-signed-image-3.19.0-58-generic python-ntdb
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
lynx-cur
The following NEW packages will be installed:
lynx lynx-cur
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 296 not upgraded.
Need to get 960 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,570 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main lynx-cur amd64 2.8.8pre4-1 [956 kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main lynx all 2.8.8pre4-1 [4,184 B]
Fetched 960 kB in 0s (2,770 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package lynx-cur.
(Reading database ... 342856 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../lynx-cur_2.8.8pre4-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking lynx-cur (2.8.8pre4-1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package lynx.
Preparing to unpack .../lynx_2.8.8pre4-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking lynx (2.8.8pre4-1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for doc-base (0.10.5) ...
Processing 1 added doc-base file...
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
Setting up lynx-cur (2.8.8pre4-1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/lynx to provide /usr/bin/www-browser (www-browser) in auto mode
Setting up lynx (2.8.8pre4-1) ...
username@hostname:~$

You and others have already helped me resolve the problem with the full /var in the How do I install LibreOffice thread even though I wiped and reloaded anyway instead of resizing the partitions because I messed up on resize anyway, since I didn't just erase /tmp and grow /var with the empty space. However, even if I had something changed and I couldn't get back into the GUI even if I did wipe and reload because it immediately wanted me to validate my license, so I got to that point I knew I would have to stop at anyway because I can't afford a ULN license right now anyway. Thanks though because I was surprised it even let me into the GUI in the first place before validating with a ULN license even though the old way in Oracle Linux 5.x let me and I knew they changed this in Oracle Linux 7.2 when I saw the new way to validate and I'm not looking to get around it in any unethical way. I just wanted to know what changed in Oracle Linux 7.x and how soon I would definitely need the ULN license, which looks like immediately now or else you can't do anything or at least not ethically and I'm not interested in doing anything unethical because it's not worth the hassle.