How To Install googler on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install googler on Debian 10.
What is googler
googler is:
Features:
- Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News
- Fast and clean (no ads, stray URLs or clutter), customisable color
- Open result URLs (or the actual search) in browser
- Navigate search result pages from omniprompt
- Fetch n results in a go, start at the nth result
- Disable automatic spelling correction and search exact keywords
- Limit search by duration, country/domain specific search (default: .com), language preference
- Supports Google search keywords like ‘filetype:mime’, ‘site:somesite.com’ etc.
- Optionally open the first result directly in browser (as in “I’m Feeling Lucky”)
- Non-stop searches: fire new searches at omniprompt without exiting
- Proxy support
- Man page with examples, shell completion scripts for Bash, Zsh and Fish
There are three methods to install googler on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install googler Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install googler using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install googler
Install googler Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install googler using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install googler
Install googler Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install googler using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install googler
How To Uninstall googler on Debian 10
To uninstall only the googler package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove googler
Uninstall googler And Its Dependencies
To uninstall googler and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove googler
Remove googler Configurations and Data
To remove googler configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge googler
Remove googler configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove googler configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge googler
Dependencies
googler have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install googler package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
