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We are going to use see how to use w3m to browse the web from the command line. After successful installation, just go to the terminal window and type w3m followed by the website name:

$ w3m google.com

We are going to see how to use elinks to browse the web from the command line. After successful installation, just go to the terminal window and type elinks followed by the website name:

$ elinks google.com

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