Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Surfing Internet on ubuntu 10.10 Terminal

Everyone used to browse website on different web-browser but do you know how to do browsing on Linux Terminal ?
For this  there is a tool named as lynx in which you can run any website from  in linux terminal.You need to install the tool as follows :-
$ sudo apt-get install lynx

The apt package manager lists the packages that need to be installed. Just press 'y' n then ‘Enter’, for the installation to continue.

After this installation no need to reboot your system. To confirm if it is working ,  type  lynx "name of website "  on your terminal.

$ lynx www.google.com

On screen press y for allowing cookies.
It may ask several times to allow cookies.
But don't afraid of cookies because cookies are piece of text stored by a user's web browser. A cookie can be used for authentication, storing site preferences,the identifier for a server-based session etc.

Author
Shivam Rohilla
NIT,Jalandhar

1 comment:

  1. Great!
    also, elinks is also a similar tool :)

    -vivu

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