08-06-2025, 09:38 AM
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Links - Text-based browser for Kindle
Yesterday, all of a sudden, I pictured an actual working links for the Kindle. I could not resist; rolled up my sleeves, terminal opened, and after hours of work, a dozen failed builds, and a couple of sanity checks... drum roll, please...
Links 2.29 has been finally cross-compiled and running on Kindle Paperwhite! 🎉 It has been quite a ride. I must have run through every kind of build error, linker tantrum, and mysteriously missing function. I wanted so much to get JavaScript support and graphical mode working but they just refused to play ball. Alas, they didn't make it into this build. 😞 By the way, this version builds only for hard-float systems, so my big apologies to anyone still stuck on soft-float. Hopefully, I can come back to that in the future. |
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08-06-2025, 01:20 PM
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How do you install it? I just can't figure it out.
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08-06-2025, 09:36 PM
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Just unzip and put it to some places in the kindle, then use kterm to launch it because I can't make the KUAL extension version. Sorry!
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Yesterday, 03:18 PM
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when I try to launch it I get "permission denied". How do I fix it?
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Yesterday, 10:13 PM
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That's strange, which permission do you have? Use chmod +x ./links to let it have execute attribute.
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Yesterday, 10:25 PM
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Is this based on the Lynx text based web browser?
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