ELinks] is a terminal text-based web browser. The full official manual can be found at [[http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/index.html.

In Debian and many distributions you can simply install it with your package manager:

sudo apt install elinks

You can also build it from source by downloading it from http://elinks.or.cz/ and build it using your typical C build process of configure and make.

wget http://elinks.or.cz/download/elinks-current-0.13.tar.gz
tar xzf elinks-current-0.13.tar.gz
cd elinks-0.13-20210402  # Or whatever it's named
./configure --help | less
 
# You might also need to install some dev libraries like:
sudo apt install libz-dev libssl-dev libbz2-dev
 
./configure --enable-gopher --enable-smb --enable-256-colors \
 --enable-html-highlight --with-python --with-x --enable-bittorrent
 
make
src/elinks
sudo make install  # Optional

To see what features ELinks was built with, go to the Help | About menu with ALT-H A. Your version may or may not have support for BitTorrent and Gopher protocols, mouse support, SSL/TLS, and other things.

Use the ALT key (or mouse if it is supported) to open the menu in the top. From here you can explore some of the capabilities.

• Open a URL - g (empty field), G (prefilled with current URL), or e (prefilled with selected link)
• Scroll up and down - CTRL-N/CTRL-P, PAGE UP/PAGE DOWN, or mouse wheel
• Select next/previous link - Up/down arrow
• Go back/forward - Left arrow/u
• Download selected link - d
• Open download manager - D
• Open a temporary shell - ALT-F O
• Open history - h
• Edit keybinds - k