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Getting ELinks up and running
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Installing ELinks should be pretty easy on most systems. Below is described
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the whole process of configuring the compilation, compiling and installing.
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Building and Installing ELinks
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The quick guide for the impatient. Issue the following commands from the
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ELinks source directory:
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$ ./configure && make && make install
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However you might consider to tweek a few compile time options before building
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ELinks. You might also want to take a look at what libraries and programs are
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required or recommended that you install.
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Requirements
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To successfully install ELinks all that is required is GNU make
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(version 3.78 or later) and a C compiler. If you want to install
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directly from GIT it is also required that automake and autoconf
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is installed on your system.
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Recommended Libraries and Programs
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To make use of many of ELinks features you will need to have some external
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libraries and utility programs installed on your system. It is recommended to
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have the following libraries and programs installed:
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[separator="|"]
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`_______________________`____________________________________________________
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Dependency |Description
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Lua or Guile |Makes it possible to write scripting plugins. \
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ifdef::installation-webpage[]
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See link:manual.html#lua-scripting[the Elinks - Lua interface] \
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endif::installation-webpage[]
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ifndef::installation-webpage[]
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See <<lua-scripting,the Elinks - Lua interface>> \
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endif::installation-webpage[]
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for more info.
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zlib 1.2.0.2 or later |For handling gzip or deflate compressed documents \
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both locally and sent from server.
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bzip2 |Likewise, for bzip2 compressed documents.
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LZMA Utils |Likewise, for LZMA compressed documents. \
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Version 4.32.5 should work. XZ Utils does not work.
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OpenSSL, GNU TLS, or nss_compat_ossl \
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|For handling secure HTTP browsing.
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pkg-config |Needed for locating some libraries (at least \
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GNU TLS and TRE)
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GPM |'General Purpose Mouse' for mouse support.
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expat |'XML Parser Toolkit' needed for XBEL support.
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http://laurikari.net/tre/[TRE] \
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|For regexp searching. Version 0.7.5 works.
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libsmbclient |Library needed for smb:// protocol support.
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rxvt-unicode |For terminal emulator which supports 88 colors.
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xterm with 256 colors |Program atleast patch level 179 or rxvt program \
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from version 2.7.9 for support of 256 colors. \
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Newer PuTTY also has 256 color support.
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libidn |For internationalized domain names.
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SpiderMonkey |Mozilla's JavaScript engine for getting \
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JavaScript/ECMAScript support in ELinks. \
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ifdef::installation-webpage[]
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See also link:manual.html#ecmascript[notes on ECMAScript support].
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endif::installation-webpage[]
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ifndef::installation-webpage[]
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See also <<ecmascript,notes on ECMAScript support>>.
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endif::installation-webpage[]
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_____________________________________________________________________________
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When compiling, you also need the header files for the libraries. Most OS
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distributors put a given library's headers in a package separate from the
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library itself; this package usually has `-dev` or similar appended to its
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name.
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Further reading
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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This installation guide is far from being complete. You are also advised to
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read the `README` and the `INSTALL` files distributed with ELinks for further
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up to date info on building and installing.
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ifndef::installation-webpage[]
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include::small.txt[]
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include::ecmascript.txt[]
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include::{builddir}features.txt[]
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endif::installation-webpage[]
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