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Hawkeye
Asked: 2015-09-29 04:41:16 +0800 CST

How to install lynx on an AWS redhat machine that can't find the package?

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I'm trying to install lynx on an AWS Redhat machine using the following:

[ec2-user@ip-XX-XX-XX-XX ~]$ sudo yum install lynx                                    
Loaded plugins: amazon-id, rhui-lb
rhui-REGION-client-config-server-7                       | 2.9 kB     00:00
rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases                         | 3.7 kB     00:00
rhui-REGION-rhel-server-rh-common                        | 3.8 kB     00:00
rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases/7Server/x86_64/primary_db |  14 MB   00:00
rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases/7Server/x86_64/updateinfo | 639 kB   00:00
No package lynx available.
Error: Nothing to do

My question is: How to install lynx on an AWS redhat machine that can't find the package?

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4 Answers

  1. You have a few choices; each with their pros, cons and sub choices:

    • Add a yum repository that contains the lynx package, and likely all dependencies needed. EPEL and RepoForge are most likely candidates here.
    • Find a lynx RPM for your OS version (looks like RHEL7 so the CentOS 7 one will probably be fine). Download and install, chances are this will lead to a search for more RPMs you need.
    • Build lynx yourself, requires working build environment and all dependencies:
    • Do you really need lynx? There are other text based browsers that are probably part of the RHEL7 package set: w3m and elinks come to mind.
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  2. Best Answer

    You need to enable the optional channels. On AWS this is done in a different way:

    yum-config-manager --enable rhui-REGION-rhel-server-extras rhui-REGION-rhel-server-optional
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  3. [As I mentioned in a comment a few years ago...]

    elinks is much better at rendering modern HTML than lynx. Look at how good frames and tables look:

    example of elinks

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  4. These steps worked for me on RHEL 7.6 in AWS:

    $ sudo yum install redhat-indexhtml
$ wget https://rpmfind.net/linux/centos/7.6.1810/os/x86_64/Packages/lynx-2.8.8-0.3.dev15.el7.x86_64.rpm
$ sudo rpm -ivh lynx-2.8.8-0.3.dev15.el7.x86_64.rpm
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