Re: [Lynx-dev] Transferring lynx

[Allison Roth]

Right, but because of my very limited access, I can't actually compile or 
install anything.  Hence the binary attempt...

-Allison

----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Dickey <address@hidden>
Date: Thursday, September 8, 2005 6:29 pm
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] Transferring lynx

> On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:11:31PM -0600, Allison Roth wrote:
> > Hi all;
> > 
> > I have a fairly irritating issue.  I want a copy of lynx (with 
> SSL) on a
> > server I have some pages hosted on.  While I have SSH access, 
> it's through
> > jailshell (i.e.  very limited capabilities).  I uploaded a 
> binary that I
> > found at http://www.subir.com/lynx/bin/, which works fine for 
> http accesses. 
> > However, for https it says the client does not support this.  
> The version is
> > 2.8.1, and I can't seem to find anything newer in binary form 
> (note:  the OS
> > is Fedora Core).
> 
> The last I noticed, there's an rpm for it (I'd compile it anyway).
> 
> > I tried, just in case it might possibly work, uploading the lynx 
> executable> from another Linux system I have where everything 
> works properly, but I get
> > this:  "./lynx:  error while loading shared libraries:  
> libbz2.so.1.0: 
> > cannot open shared object file:  No such file or directory"
> > 
> > I know there were some issues earlier with RSA library patents 
> and not being
> > able to distribute this, but it's my understanding that the 
> patent in
> > question ran out.  Anyone know the current status on this, 
> and/or the best
> > way through my little issue?
> 
> Support for SSL's been in the lynx source since January 2001.
> 
> The current version of lynx is 2.8.5
> 
> It's available at
>       http://lynx.isc.org/lynx2.8.5/
> 2.8.6 Development & patches:
>       http://lynx.isc.org/current/index.html
> 
> -- 
> Thomas E. Dickey
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