elinks command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix elinks command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

elinks: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: elinks: command not found

How To Fix elinks: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu elinks is provided by elinks package.

elinks is:

ELinks is a feature-rich program for browsing the web in text mode. It is like enhanced Lynx and Links. The most noteworthy features of ELinks are:

  • Lots of protocols (local files, finger, HTTP(S), FTP, IPv4/6 etc.)
  • Internationalized domain names
  • Persistent cookies, HTTP authentication and proxy authentication
  • Tabbed browsing, good looking menus and dialogs, and key-binding manager
  • History browsing and typeahead searches
  • Forms history and completion, and history in commonly used input dialogs
  • CSS support and support for browser scripting (Perl, Lua, Guile etc.)
  • Tables and frames rendering, and configurable color support
  • Compressed and background (non-blocking) downloads, and download resuming

This package is based on felinks fork, since original elinks seems to be no longer maintained.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install elinks

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install elinks.

sudo apt -y install elinks

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install elinks

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix elinks command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.