Lab: Non-graphical browsers

We have discussed non-graphical browsers:

There are times when you will not have a graphical window interface running on your Linux machine and you need to look something up on the web or download a driver (like a graphics driver in order to bring up a graphical window interface). So, it is a good idea to practice using a non-graphical web browser to do some work.

With links, you can use your mouse to click on the top line of the screen to get a menu. In this case, we want to go to google.com (or your favorite search engine), so you can just type g to go to a typed-in URL.

Pressing the TAB key will move your cursor to the OK button. You can then press the ENTER key.

You should now be at google.com (or your favorite search engine). Use the down-arrow key to move through the choices until you reach the blank line used to enter your search query. Now type Intel Linux graphics drivers in the search box. Use the down-arrow key to move you to the Google Search button. With that highlighted, press the ENTER key.

Use your down-arrow key to move to the entry: Intel(R) Graphics Drivers for Linux - Download Center. It may take several presses of the down-arrow key. You can press the space-bar to move down the page or the ‘b’ key to move back up the page if needed. Once this line is highlighted, press the ENTER key. You will now go to the Intel Graphics Driver for Linux page. If you want, you can read the page. Remember, the space-bar will page you down the page while the ‘b’ key will move you back up the page. The Page Down and Page Up keys will do the same thing if you prefer. Find the URL under the line 

URL Location:
Position your cursor at this line using the up-arrow or down-arrow key. Press the ENTER key to go to this location.

Page down this page until you see the line: 

Latest Releases
If you move your cursor with the arrow keys, find the latest version (with the most recent release date) under this section. If using your arrow-keys, you should highlight Release Notes. Press the ENTER key.

This has installers for versions of Ubuntu and Fedora, along with the source code. You will need to page down a page or two depending on the size of your screen.

Select one of the installers, perhaps for the version of Linux that you are running, or just a random one, and press the ENTER key.

You should see a text dialog box with choices of what to do. Save the package wherever you want to.

You can now quit your non-graphical browser. If you used links, then click on the top line of the screen, select the File drop-down menu item, and click on Exit. Confirm that you really want to exit Links. You should now see your shell prompt.