macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install felinkslocal Homebrew formula metadata
MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install elinksMacPorts ports tree · www/elinks/Portfile · source: api.github.com
brew
Install felinks with Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, scoop, zypper
Text mode browser and Gemini, NNTP, FTP, Gopher, Finger, and BitTorrent client. Version 0.19.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-18.
install
Additional install commands
Linux
Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add elinksAlpine Linux edge package indexes · elinks · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install elinksDebian stable package indexes · elinks · source: deb.debian.org
Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install elinksFedora Rawhide package metadata · elinks · source: dl.fedoraproject.org
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#elinksnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/el/elinks/package.nix · source: api.github.com
Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S elinksArch Linux sync databases · elinks · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install elinksopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · elinks · source: download.opensuse.org
Windows
Scoopverified · 92%
scoop install main/elinksScoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/elinks.json · source: api.github.com
overview
Package summary
Text mode browser and Gemini, NNTP, FTP, Gopher, Finger, and BitTorrent client
Project links
Commands and aliases
- elinks
history
Project history and usage
felinks is the Homebrew package name for the maintained ELinks continuation. It installs the elinks executable, a text-mode browser descended from Links and focused on terminal browsing across HTTP, FTP, Gopher, Gemini, NNTP, Finger, and related protocols.
Project history
The ELinks README gives unusually direct historical context: ELinks began as a development version and fork of Links, with a more liberal feature policy than the original Links project. The fork aimed to test and tune new features while still producing stable branches.
The same README explains the later felinks phase. After the old ELinks team lost interest, felinks continued development from the original ELinks master branch. The repository was renamed back to elinks on 2020-12-01 with Petr's approval, while Homebrew kept the formula name felinks to distinguish this continuation.
The modern release stream is active. The NEWS file lists releases from 0.16 through 0.19, including 0.17.0 in 2023 with the XDG config path change, 0.18.0 in 2024, 0.19.0 in 2025, and 0.19.1 in 2026.
Adoption history
ELinks has long been packaged as elinks across Linux distributions and other package collections, while Homebrew uses felinks for this maintained fork. The supplied metadata shows packaging in Alpine, Debian, Fedora, MacPorts, Nix, Arch, Scoop, Ubuntu, and openSUSE, consistent with a portable terminal-browser niche.
Its adoption is sustained less by mainstream web browsing and more by terminal, SSH, recovery, accessibility, and automation use cases where a text-mode browser still fits.
How it is used
The manual describes ELinks as a lynx-like character-mode browser with colors, table rendering, background downloading, menu-driven configuration, tabbed browsing, and slim code. It handles local files and remote URLs, primarily HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP, with additional protocol support for BitTorrent, finger, Gopher, SMB, and NNTP.
Modern releases add and maintain features that matter to terminal users: XDG config paths, libcurl support, CSS and JavaScript experiments, Gemini support, sixel or kitty inline image work, iframe support, and scripting hooks.
Why package nerds care
felinks matters because it is a living branch of a classic terminal-browser family. For package nerds, it sits in the same lineage as lynx, Links, and w3m, but with a feature-heavy philosophy and a continued release cadence.
It is also a case study in naming and continuity: the upstream repository is now elinks again, the executable is elinks, but some package managers retain felinks to identify the maintained fork lineage.
Timeline
- Pre-2010s: ELinks begins as a feature-liberal development fork of Links.
- 2019: GitHub releases for the maintained continuation include v0.13.0.
- 2020: Repository renamed to elinks on 2020-12-01 with approval from Petr.
- 2023: ELinks 0.17.0 moves saved configuration to ~/.config/elinks or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/elinks.
- 2026: ELinks 0.19.1 released on 2026-02-07.
Related projects
- Links is the direct ancestor project described by the ELinks README.
- Lynx and w3m are peer text-mode browsers in the same package-manager niche.
- Chawan is adjacent in newer terminal-browser culture; ELinks release notes mention support for Chawan mailcap extensions.
Sources
security posture
No protected-tool coverage found yet
No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for felinks. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
- Installs with 8 runtime dependencies.
- Build metadata lists 3 build dependencies.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
local files
Configuration and credential file locations
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
~/.config/elinks/elinks.conf$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/elinks/elinks.conf
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
elinks | cli | global executable |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-07-08
manager version0.19.1
manager updated2026-05-18
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
https://github.com/rkd77/elinks
- infoNo cached GitHub release or tag data was available.https://github.com/rkd77/elinksnone confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:felinks |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.19.1 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/felinks |
| Homepage | https://github.com/rkd77/elinks |
| Repository | https://github.com/rkd77/elinks |
| Upstream docs | https://github.com/rkd77/elinks#readme |
| License | GPL-2.0-only |
| Source archive | https://github.com/rkd77/elinks/releases/download/v0.19.1/elinks-0.19.1.tar.xz |
| Last updated | 2026-05-18T21:49:17Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Dependencies | brotli, gnutls, libcss, libdom, libgcrypt, libidn2, libwapcaplet, tre |
| Build dependencies | meson, ninja, pkgconf |
| Uses from macOS | curl, expat |
| Bottle | available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
registry facts
Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | felinks |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
MacPorts94%
elinks
sudo port install elinks- installed executable or alias match
- Matched by: Elinks
Debian apt92%
elinks 0.18.0-1+b1
advanced text-mode WWW browser
https://github.com/rkd77/elinks/
sudo apt install elinks- Section: web
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: elinks
- 20 dependencies
- 1 provides
- 1 optional deps
- installed executable or alias match
- Matched by: Elinks
Debian apt92%
elinks-data 0.18.0-1
advanced text-mode WWW browser - data files
https://github.com/rkd77/elinks/
sudo apt install elinks-data- Section: web
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: elinks
- installed executable or alias match
- Matched by: Elinks
Debian apt92%
elinks-doc 0.18.0-1
advanced text-mode WWW browser - documentation
https://github.com/rkd77/elinks/
sudo apt install elinks-doc- Section: doc
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: elinks
- 1 optional deps
- installed executable or alias match
- Matched by: Elinks
Nix92%
elinks
nix profile install nixpkgs#elinks- installed executable or alias match
- Matched by: Elinks
Ubuntu apt92%
elinks 0.16.1.1-4.1ubuntu3
advanced text-mode WWW browser
https://github.com/rkd77/elinks/
sudo apt install elinks- Section: universe/web
- Architecture: amd64
- 18 dependencies
- 1 provides
- 1 optional deps
- installed executable or alias match
- Matched by: Elinks
Ubuntu apt92%
elinks-data 0.16.1.1-4.1ubuntu3
advanced text-mode WWW browser - data files
https://github.com/rkd77/elinks/
sudo apt install elinks-data- Section: universe/web
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: elinks
- installed executable or alias match
- Matched by: Elinks
Ubuntu apt92%
elinks-doc 0.16.1.1-4.1ubuntu3
advanced text-mode WWW browser - documentation
https://github.com/rkd77/elinks/
sudo apt install elinks-doc- Section: universe/doc
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: elinks
- 1 optional deps
- installed executable or alias match
- Matched by: Elinks
apk92%
elinks 0.19.1-r0
Advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web browser
https://github.com/rkd77/elinks
sudo apk add elinks- License: GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND MIT AND MPL-1.1
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: elinks
- 1 dependencies
- 1 provides
- installed executable or alias match
- Matched by: Elinks
apk92%
elinks-doc 0.19.1-r0
Advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web browser (documentation)
https://github.com/rkd77/elinks
sudo apk add elinks-doc- License: GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND MIT AND MPL-1.1
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: elinks
- installed executable or alias match
- Matched by: Elinks
apk92%
elinks-lang 0.19.1-r0
Languages for package elinks
https://github.com/rkd77/elinks
sudo apk add elinks-lang- License: GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND MIT AND MPL-1.1
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: elinks
- installed executable or alias match
- Matched by: Elinks
dnf92%
elinks 0.19.1-1.fc45
A text-mode Web browser
https://github.com/rkd77/elinks
sudo dnf install elinks- License: GPL-2.0-only
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: elinks
- 15 dependencies
- 5 provides
- installed executable or alias match
- Matched by: Elinks
pacman92%
elinks 0.19.1-3
Advanced feature-rich text-mode web browser
https://github.com/rkd77/elinks
sudo pacman -S elinks- License: GPL-2.0-only
- Architecture: x86_64
- 17 dependencies
- installed executable or alias match
- Matched by: Elinks
zypper92%
elinks 0.19.1-1.3
An advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web browser
sudo zypper install elinks- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
- Category: Productivity/Networking/Web/Browsers
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: elinks
- 23 dependencies
- 2 provides
- installed executable or alias match
- Matched by: Elinks
Scoop92%
main/elinks
scoop install main/elinks- installed executable or alias match
- Matched by: Elinks
source trail
Generated from repository data
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View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment