Is there a way to View the Internet via Command Line in Gentoo?
This is kind of stupid, and pointless in this day and age, but it’s kind of interesting none the less. As you may (or may not) know from my last post I have been fighting with Gentoo, and trying to overcome my kryptonite (Which I finally did by the way). Anyhoo, during the install process, you must go out to the internet to download some stuff. The funny thing is though, you install Gentoo from command line.
In Gentoo, to view a website from command line you must use links like this:
>links http://www.asktheadmin.com
In Ubuntu, links isn’t installed by default, but you can fix that using apt-get:
>sudo apt-get install links
Then you can check out ATA, and not even need a gui to do it!
Originally Posted on Bauer-Power By El Di Pablo
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about 4 years ago
There are a lot of text browsers on Linux. I personally prefer Elinks… mostly because of the tabs. There is also w3m and lynx, though lynx is quite dated.
about 4 years ago
You can also use wget to download files from the web. There are lots of great sites with wget write-ups. It is a really powerful tool.
about 4 years ago
elinks is great to pipe to a txt file to manipulate the data on a schedule.
about 4 years ago
w3m is part of ubuntu-standard. You wouldn’t need to apt install links if you were in a situation like this.
about 4 years ago
w3m? I never knew about that! Thanks iqag! Though I’m not sure I’ll really need it too much in Ubuntu. I suppose If I never installed the desktop to the server I would.