Lynx Browser Install Trouble

[Rynocerous]

I am having A LOT of trouble installing the lynx browser. I originally was going to install it in Windows 7 but when I attempt to run build.com it tells me that it will not build on a 64-bit machine, so I started trying on Ubuntu (Am I just screwed because I am using 64-bit Ubuntu as well?).

The whole reason I want lynx is so that I can pipe into it with Perl. I tried a pre-compiled version for Windows but I was unable to pipe into it. There are three different instructions I keep stumbling upon, one which tells me to "yum install lynx" or "sudo apt-get install lynx" which I was also unable to pipe into. Another which includes generic "./configure make make install" instructions which are too simplistic to work. Finally the most detailed instructions I get are from the INSTALLATION file. Unfortunately I am very new to Linux and am having trouble understanding most of it.

The error that originally came up was something along the lines of "Unable to find curses", I remedied this by adding the option "--with-screen=ncurses (or slang)". However this only replaces the error with "Unable to find ncurses (or slang) header". The error still appears even after moving the ncurses (or slang) folder into /bin and /usr/bin. This is the farthest I have gotten in the install and would appreciate any help.

[oz]

so I started trying on Ubuntu (Am I just screwed because I am using 64-bit Ubuntu as well?).

Hello and welcome!

Did you try to install it from the command line using apt?

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lynx

...or by using the Synaptic GUI?

Using apt or synaptic should be much easier than installing from source.

I'm thinking that package is probably in the Ubuntu repositories because a 64-bit Lynx package can be found in the Arch repos (my distro) and Ubuntu generally has more packages than Arch:

Arch Linux - lynx 2.8.7-4 - Package Details


Edit: oops... reread your post and see that you did try to use apt-get. Maybe some Ubuntu users will chime in with some ideas on that package.

[jayd512]

Welcome aboard!

I'm running 32-bit Ubuntu 10.04. Lynx is in the Main repos. So there should be no need for installing from source code.
One thing that you might need to do, though.
Located in the Universe repo is a package called lynx-cur-wrapper.

Not sure if that's what you need, but it's worth a shot.

[Rynocerous]

Thank you for the suggestions but as it turns out, the apt-get method actually worked for piping all along. I was using a script I downloaded from a Perl book’s website to test whether or not the piping worked and I thought that the error message I was getting was caused by Lynx being unable to open in Perl, but in actuality it was caused by some strange corruption of the script. When I opened it in a text editor the dash before the "source" modifier turned into some weird Unicode character. And after replacing it, the script worked fine.