Elinks version 0.11.5 - How to Download and Install on Mac OS X
Wednesday the 8th of September, 2010

    version 0.11.5

      View the most recent changes for the elinks port at: elinks.darwinports.com/diff
      Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for elinks.
      The raw portfile for elinks 0.11.5 is located here:
      http://elinks.darwinports.com/dports/www/elinks/Portfile
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      The elinks Portfile 54314 2009-07-24 19:19:05Z toby macports.org $

      PortSystem 1.0

      Name: elinks
      epoch 1
      Version: 0.11.5
      Category: www
      Platform: darwin
      Maintainers: simon openmaintainer
      Description: text mode web browser
      Long Description: ELinks is an advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web (HTTP/FTP/..) browser. ELinks can render both frames and tables, is highly customizable and can be extended via Lua or Guile scripts.

      Homepage: http://elinks.or.cz/
      Master Sites: ${homepage}download/
      use_bzip2 yes
      Checksums: md5 7dccdb6568d7eeda68912f6541496b7e sha1 90768912dbb7a77e328a25b43c3e484ae3e4be2f rmd160 397e5e94de8cd8c5dc9a1774b7485d6edf1a7c49

      depends_lib port:openssl port:zlib port:bzip2 port:expat

      configure.args --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --disable-nls --without-guile --without-lua --without-gnutls --with-openssl=${prefix} --with-zlib=${prefix}

      Variant: col256 description {Use 256 colours if supported by the terminal} {
      post-extract {
      reinplace "s|CONFIG_256_COLORS=no|CONFIG_256_COLORS=yes|" ${worksrcpath}/features.conf
      }
      }

      Variant: lua description {Build with Lua support} {
      depends_lib-append port:lua50

      configure.args-delete --without-lua
      configure.args-append --with-lua
      }

      Variant: perl description {Build with Perl support} {
      depends_lib-append path:bin/perl:perl5

      patchfiles-append patch-perl.diff

      configure.args-append --with-perl
      }

      use_parallel_build no

    If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.

    Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:


      %  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/elinks
      % sudo port install elinks
      Password:
    You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

      ---> Fetching elinks
      ---> Verifying checksum for elinks
      ---> Extracting elinks
      ---> Configuring elinks
      ---> Building elinks with target all
      ---> Staging elinks into destroot
      ---> Installing elinks
    - Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using elinks with these commands:
      %  man elinks
      % apropos elinks
      % which elinks
      % locate elinks

     Where to find more information:

    Darwin Ports



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