Hello, I am wanting a faster, safer, peaceful, less-bandwidth web browsing experience, which are my reasons for trying lynx. Would you mind helping me install it? It is a little over my head (it appears I must learn how to use the Mac Terminal to install this software, and perhaps also to use it), but I think I can learn, if someone teaches me. I do have some limited computer experience, e.g. trying Mandrake/Mandriva/Ubuntu linux distributions (not without some installation problems), coding in MATLAB ...
What I’ve tried so far to install: 1. I navigated to the folder containing the lynx download, lynx2-8-8 via a series of “cd” and “ls” commands in Terminal. 2. "./configure” appeared successful. 3. “make” appeared successful. 4. I appended the path temporarily to the terminal session via “PATH=“ and “:” as demonstrated at http://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/add-shell-path-osx/ 5. From the same folder, I tried installing in a different location: "./configure --prefix=/Users/[name]/Applications/lynx --exec-prefix=/Users/[name]/Applications/lynx”. To my surprise, this appeared successful, yet that folder appears empty with no files, hidden or not! It ended with the final lines: — configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating makefile config.status: creating WWW/Library/Implementation/makefile config.status: creating src/makefile config.status: creating src/chrtrans/makefile config.status: creating lynx_cfg.h --- But I don’t understand how to edit the lynx.cfg file or proceed any further. I have encountered this error message: ~~~ $ lynx -cfg=/[folders]/lynx2-8-8/lynx.cfg Lynx file "/usr/local/etc/lynx.lss" is not available. ~~~ A. Was lynx -cfg=… the correct next step towards installation? B. What does it mean for this file to be not available? What is the problem and how do I solve it? C. Am I correct that, after this command, the next steps toward proper installation (in my case) would be: i. make install ii. make install-help iii. lynx The last step iii being to start using the software. So, to recap, I thought the steps to a proper installation were: "./configure", “make", add directory to path so that ‘lynx’ becomes a recognized command, "lynx -cfg", "make install", "make install-help" (since I need help files), and then finally “lynx". I look forward to hearing from you, and thanks for your help and for this opportunity. _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
