Links (web browser) on LE (raspi)?

bananenfisch · May 24, 2021 at 5:03 PM

Hi!

since LE does not use any X/Wayland system (for good reasons) i ask myself if it would be possible (and/or easy) to package the links2 web browser? links2 can handle framebuffer output. it's not chrome or firefox but for simple text surfing with images and also searching for videos on the web it's really fine! way better than the old web viewer addon.

there are already arm packages on debian and other distributions.

What do you think?

*Links (web browser) - Wikipedia
*Debian -- Informationen über Paket links2 in bullseye

**chewitt** · May 25, 2021 at 1:47 PM Official Post

The moment we provide a "limited" browser there will be a long line of pitch-fork waving villagers whinging that it doesn't support X/Y/Z website they watch videos from. No browser generates fewer support threads than wrong browser (sadly).

bananenfisch · May 25, 2021 at 2:42 PM

Haha, then maybe just "lynx" for net-tools package? Or call it "not-a-browser"

Well, i will try to build links2 - just want to check the newspaper from the sofa

**CvH** · May 26, 2021 at 3:29 PM Official Post

there are pretty nice kind of cli browsers that support whatnot but they require a lot heavy dependencies for limited features

MAYBE docker + chromium is a way (there should be a topic in the forum about that)

Links (web browser) on LE (raspi)?

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