Installation of netsurf

Net-surf  is a lightweight browser with support of HTML4 and CSS2.1.
It is impossible to install net-surf from packages. So, the only way to use it on Ubuntu 18.04 is a compilation from sources. You need to download and extract the latest tar-ball from official web site .

I left here a short overview of the installation process.

Prepare your system:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Install dependencies:
sudo apt-get install build-essential bison flex gperf libgtk2.0-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libgtk2.0-dev

I have installed libcurl4-openssl-dev because I need in libcurl-dev which is shipping with packets:

1. libcurl4-openssl-dev 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.7
2. libcurl4-nss-dev 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.7
3. libcurl4-gnutls-dev 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.7

List of dependencies.

Now the system is ready for installation:
cd netsurf-all-3.8
make
sudo make install

The application will be installed as /bin/netsurf-gtk . To execute you need to run netsurf-gtk.

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