lynx - ASCII web browser for the console HOWTO

ChangeLog


2019-01-12	- 2.8.8rel.2 -> 2.8.9
		- Home page URL changed from lynx.isc.org to
		  lynx.invisible-island.net
		- Updated Slackware package versions to 14.2
2014-04-24	- 2.8.7rel.2 -> 2.8.8rel.2
		- Updated Slackware note for 14.0 and 14.1, removed older
		  than 13.1
		- Added note about 64-bit with OpenSSL from source
2012-03-03	- 2.8.7rel.1 -> 2.8.7rel.2
		- Added a patch
		- Updated Slackware note for 13.0, 13.1 and 13.37
		- Added bison to prerequisites list
		- Added pkg-config to prerequisites list
		- Added zlib to prerequisites list
		- Removed gpm from prerequisites list
2009-07-10	- 2.8.6rel.5 -> 2.8.7rel.1
		- Changed home page URL from lynx.browser.org to
		  lynx.isc.org
		- Updated notes about where files are installed now
		- Updated Slackware note for 12.1 and 12.2
2007-09-11	- 2.8.6.rel4 -> 2.8.6rel.5
Mar 13, 2006	- 2.8.5rel.5 -> 2.8.6rel.4
		- Remove source dirs with - in it too
		- Updated to handle /etc/lynx.cfg instead of
		  /usr/lib/lynx/lynx.cfg, updated removal
		  instructions with new paths
Feb 17, 2006	- Only run removepkg if it exists
		- Added uninstall notes at the bottom
Jan 6, 2006	- Updated compress URL
Nov 2, 2005	- Added patches to bring it up to rel 5
Jul 8, 2005	- Removed make, gcc, binutils, and fileutils links
		- Changed the uudecode link from gmime's howto to sharutils
		- Moved source directory (see note <a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>)
		- Rearranged options to shut up new version of find
		- root.root -> root:root, run when $UID = 0
		- Changed the md5sum link to textutils to a link to coreutils
		- Changed the name that find uses to clean up old source
		  directories from lynx* to lynx?.*
Feb 9, 2004	- lynx 2.8.4 -> 2.8.5
		- Removed --enable-prettysrc, --enable-read-eta, and
		  --enable-source-cache from configure, they're defaults
		  now
		- Added --disable-nls and --enable-bzlib
		- Added prerequisites (note: there are lots of different
		  rlogins, telnets, uudecodes, etc.)
		- Removed some of the notes about what Slackware does to
		  userdefs.h
		- Replace the original location of mime.types and mailcap from
		  /usr/local/lib/mosaic/ to /usr/lib/lynx/, put a copy of
		  each file in there (if there's not already one there)
Sep 22, 2003	- Create ~/installed with mode 700
		- Move prefix from /usr/local to /usr (like Slack's lynx
		  package)
		- Added verification with an md5sum from my copies of the
		  tarball, all match up including one from today and one
		  from July 17, 2001
		- Added running of 'make install-doc' too, I never installed
		  it before because you can get to the docs online, but what
		  the hey...
Apr 14, 2003	- Modernized the howto
Feb 5, 2003	- Added 'removepkg lynx' after make
		- Added removal of old versions
Sep 17, 2002	- Added patch #4
Aug 19, 2002	- Added patch #3 to fix cr/lf injection bug mentioned on
		  bugtraq
		- Changed it so wget runs once (instead of one wget per d/l)

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