Newbie Lynx and Mozilla Firefox Questions
Andrew Gould
andrewgould at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 4 20:27:15 UTC 2007
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From: linux quest <linuxquest7570 at yahoo.com>
To: FreeBSD-questions at FreeBSD.org
Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2007 10:22:25 AM
Subject: Newbie Lynx and Mozilla Firefox Questions
I have been searching for tutorials for browsing the Internet using Lynx, but can't seem to find one anywhere. There aren't any tutorial either in those Unix books that I bought. What command do I need to type to download Lynx and what command I need to type to run Lynx on FreeBSD?
Secondly, I try to run firefox by typing ...
# mozilla &
but ... it respond with error msg ... and yes I can connect to the Internet (I pinged google.com).
Thanks for any help.
Regards,
Linux Quest
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To install Lynx, you can execute the following as root:
pkg_add -r lynx
but I prefer using the ports to get the SSL version:
cd /usr/ports/www/lynx-ssl/
make install clean
Then you can start lynx using:
lynx <url>
If you go to google.com and enter "lynx tutorial", you'll get a list of good resources for learning lynx.
The command "mozilla &" is used to start the mozilla browser, which is still available. To start firefox, try "firefox &".
Best of luck,
Andrew
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