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Termux - a terminal emulator application for Android OS extendible by variety of packages.
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no web browsers? #1394

Closed puddingepoch closed 4 years ago

puddingepoch commented 4 years ago

why are there no web browsers in the repos? it is 2019, nearly 2020 this is kind of sad, can we please at least get firefox? even freedos has browsers.

SDRausty commented 4 years ago 
$ apt show lynx
Package: lynx
Version: 2.8.9rel.1-4
Maintainer: Fredrik Fornwall @fornwall
Installed-Size: 1810 kB
Depends: libiconv, ncurses, openssl, libbz2, libidn, zlib
Homepage: http://lynx.browser.org/
Download-Size: 514 kB
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: https://termux.org/packages stable/main aarch64 Packages
Description: The text web browser
SDRausty commented 4 years ago 
$ apt show w3m
Package: w3m
Version: 0.5.3.20190105-2
Maintainer: Fredrik Fornwall @fornwall
Installed-Size: 1581 kB
Depends: libgc, ncurses, openssl, zlib
Suggests: perl
Homepage: http://w3m.sourceforge.net/
Download-Size: 618 kB
APT-Sources: https://termux.org/packages stable/main aarch64 Packages
Description: Text based Web browser and pager

More information at https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/W3m the Termux wiki.

Grimler91 commented 4 years ago

For why we don't have firefox, see https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/4247

ghost commented 4 years ago

why are there no web browsers in the repos? it is 2019, nearly 2020

Depends on what you consider as web browser... We have: