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  Current version is 2.29. See ChangeLog
Attention!If you want to install Links immediately, proceed step-by-step according to the following instructions. Otherwise you will waste a lot of time.
  1. Check you have the following programs and free-software libraries installed on your system. If you can't ensure usable versions of all necessary libraries be installed, you have to compile Links with user-supplied libraries. Refer to the file INSTALL in such a case.
    • libpng different from 1.2.18. Required to run Links in graphics mode. On package-driven distributions you will need libpng and libpng-dev(el). Libpng 1.2.18 is buggy and causes Links to crash with "png_do_rgb_to_gray found nongray pixel". PATCH-libpng-1.2.18 inside links-*.tar.* allows fixing this and using 1.2.18.
    • IJG libjpeg If you want Links to display JPG pictures. On package-driven distributions you will need libjpeg and libjpeg-dev(el).
    • TIFF Library If you want Links to display TIFF images. On packaged-driven distributions you will need libtiff and libtiff-dev(el).
    • SVGAlib if you want to run Links unde SVGAlib. You must be able to compile programs under svgalib. On package-driven distributions, you may need svgalib and svgalib-devel
    • XFree86 or other implementation of Xlib if you want Links to display also under X. On package-driven distribution you'll probably need xfree86 and xfree86-devel packages.
    • GPM if you want to use mouse on text console or if you want to display graphics on Linux framebuffer.
    • tar and gzip or bzip2 to be able to unpack the archive.
    • zlib if you want Links to accept gzip compression to speed up webpages. On package driven distributions also take zlib-dev(el).
    • libbzip2 if you want Links to accept bzip2 compression to speed up webpages. On package-driven distributions also take libbzip2-dev(el).
    • xz if you want Links to be able to decompress LZMA-compressed files.
    • C compiler
    • The make program
  2. Don't forget to run "ldconfig" if you have been installing some libraries :-)
  3. Download the source archive:
    HTTP
    gziplinks-2.29.tar.gz
    bzip2links-2.29.tar.bz2
  4. Unpack the source archive: "tar xzvf links-2.29.tar.gz" or "tar xjvf links-2.29.tar.bz2" Change into the newly-created directory.
  5. Issue "./configure --help" and the run "./configure" with the parameters you want (probably --enable-graphics and maybe some more)
  6. After "configure" ends, check the table if you really get what you want
  7. Type "make". Ignore possible warning about tempnam function, links code is correct.
  8. If you got a root access, log in as root and do "make install" in the same directory. If you are installing Links as an ordinary user, place the "links" executable file that was created by the "make" command into some suitable place possibly within your $PATH.
  9. If you haven't got a permanent Internet access, copy the whole subdirectory "doc/" into some suitable place (/usr/share/, /usr/local/share/, or in your home...). Most important is the "doc/links_cal/" subdirectory which contains HTML documents (calibration.html in English and kalibrace.html in Czech) and pictuers that are used for calibration.
  10. If you have an X Window System windowmanager and want to install a Links icon into it, you will find a suitable 48x48 icon in graphics/links.xpm.
  11. Delete the archive and the source directory.
  12. If graphics mode is enabled, run "links -g doc/calibration.html" (or "links -g" and point the browser to The Calibration Procedure) and proceed with the calibration of your monitor and Links
  13. Now you can use the browser. Run "links -g" if you want to run in graphics and "links" if you want to run in text mode.

Warning

Links older than 2.6 contains some bugs that can result in writing out of allocated memory if Links is running in graphics mode. This can be potentially exploited to attack the computer. If you use graphics mode you should upgrade to Links 2.6.

Archives

Primary archive with source codes of all versions
http://links.twibright.com/download/
OS/2 binaries (need EMX runtime)
http://links.twibright.com/download/binaries/os2/
Windows binaries
http://links.twibright.com/download/binaries/win32/
OpenVMS binaries
http://links.twibright.com/download/binaries/openvms/
DOS binaries (beta quality — there are stability problems)
http://links.twibright.com/download/binaries/dos/
RPMs
http://jakub.horky.net/rpm/links/
Thanks to Jakub Horky for these RPMs. However if you find something wrong with them don't ask us (Twibright Labs), but Jakub Horky directly: jakub [at] horky . net
DEBs
http://packages.debian.org/links2
Mikulas's mirror at Artax
http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/download

Documentation

Third-party contributions

These contributions are made by third parties and weren't validated or approved by Twibright Labs. Nothing is guaranteed about quality of them.

DEBs (only old, text versions)
ftp://yikes.tolna.net/pub/linux/release/debian/
RPMs
http://links.twibright.com/download/rpm/ (lacks calibration pattern in /usr/share/links)

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