w3m doesn't show me images on Ubuntu. How to fix it?

I've updated apt and installed w3m and w3m-both:

$ apt install w3m-img
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
w3m is already the newest version (0.5.3-36build1).
w3m-img is already the newest version (0.5.3-36build1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 31 not upgraded.
$ which w3m
/usr/bin/w3m
$ which w3mimgdisplay
w3mimgdisplay not found
$ which w3m-img
w3m-img not found
$ ls -la /usr/lib/w3m/w3mimgdisplay
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root video 26640 Feb 5 2018 /usr/lib/w3m/w3mimgdisplay

When I call: w3m I don't see any images. How to fix it? I tried it in Tilix and in gnome-terminal.

1 Answer

First of all w3m-img package provides

inline image extension support utilities for w3m

so it does not have separate executable.

Then visit web-site with inline images like

w3m 

and you will get something like

Note: it may not work on text TTY (Ctrl+Alt+F1) inside VirtualBox - I have seen this problem.