What is Lynx? Lynx is a text web browser. Many search engines recommend that you look at your website with this browser because this this how their crawlers see your pages. I have updated this page with a youtube video which explains how to install. Lynx was easy to run on windows XP, but to run on Windows 10, you need to use Linux Machine Platform Windows

Option 1

The easiest way to run Lynx in a windows computer is to run Ubuntu linux in a virtual box. I have it on my ubuntu-20TSL-FRESH-INSTALL

Option 2

Open the command line and type the following command to check if you have wsl distributions installed wsl info

> wsl -l -v

Start the virtual linux distribution:

> wsl -d <DistributionName>

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Please Note: This tutorial was created in 2007 when everyone was using Windows XP. Things have changed.

Turorial New Version (2022)

1. Download Lynx from https://lynx.invisible-island.net/

2. Click on the latest stable version. As of today, it is https://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx2.8.9/index.html

3. Look in the Windows Binaries section and download the installer. Example: 2.8.5rel.1 installer from http://csant.info/lynx.htm

4. Download: http://csant.info/downloads/lynx_setup-2.8.5rel-1.zip

5. Unzip/extract lynx_setup-2.8.5rel-1.zip

6. Double-Click on lynx_setup-2.8.5rel-1.exe to start the installation

7. Once you have finished the installation, you can start Lynx from from the installation path: C:\Program Files (x86)\lynx

8. Click on lynx.exe

 

 

 

Tutorial Old Version: (2007)

In my journey trying to get this Lynx browser to work i found out that there are more resouces for Linux than Windows. if you are windows user, like windows 98, 2000, XP or Vista, then you will hopefuly benefit from this short tutorial i am writing.

the first step is to download lynx. Where can you download? There are many website or mirrors where you can download.

1. Start here: http://lynx.isc.org/


Windows:
http://www.pervalidus.net/cygwin/lynx/
http://csant.info/lynx.htm
http://www.jim.spath.com/lynx_win32/
Windows/DOS
http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/lynxport.htm
DOS
http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/[/i]
[u]ftp://ftp.rahul.net/pub/dkaufman/
ftp://ftp.leb.net/pub/blinux/lynx/blynx386/
UNIX
ftp://ftp2.cc.ukans.edu:80/pub/lynx/
Macintosh
http://www.lirmm.fr/~gutkneco/maclynx/
O/S 2
http://studentweb.tulane.edu/~jmcbray/lynx/
Amiga
http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/amiga/alynx.html

I had a hard time finding the right one for me. You can google it and search for this file which i am currently using and it works great on Windows XP:

Filename:

lynx_setup-2.8.5rel-1.exe

or

lynx_setup-2.8.5rel-1.zip

Once you have found the version you want, download and open the installation.

Once you have installed Lynx in your computer, open it,:



when you open it, it will look like this at the bottom:



To ope an website or url, hit the "g" key on your keyboard, this give the "GO TO" command in lynx and it will open a web page. so once you have hit g on your keyboard, you will see this> (i will be opening http://loadmall.com/page/1/a in this example)



once you have typed the url, hit the enter key and lynx will go to that web page. Remember to put http:// and you have an internet connection.

this is how http://loadmall.com/page/1/a looks like:


to click on a link simply move the cursor with your up and down arrows, once you are on the link you want, click enter and it will take you to that link: what do the colors mean:

Green = Hyper Links
Blue - The title of the page
Brown-Green = Text

Hopes this has helped you.

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