In AWS Linux, Links is a very hard package to get installed. You quickly hit some dependency mayhem that just takes too long to resolve, when this feature is normally disabled by default. My solution would be to remove this feature from the source, and release a version that can be installed through the epel repository.

Here is what worked for me:

wget https://github.com/rackerlabs/recap/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
cd recap-master/
make install

Thanks!

Chris Mendoza