How To Install duckduckgo on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install duckduckgo in Fedora 36. duckduckgo is Command line tool to use the DuckDuckGo API

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install duckduckgo on Fedora 36.

What is `duckduckgo`

This application queries the DuckDuckGo API and displays the result in a nice human-readable way or in a batch mode which could be used by a shell script to automatically work with the DuckDuckGo API results.

We can use yum or dnf to install duckduckgo on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install duckduckgo.

Install duckduckgo on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install duckduckgo using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install duckduckgo

Install duckduckgo on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install duckduckgo using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install duckduckgo

How To Uninstall duckduckgo on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the duckduckgo package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove duckduckgo

duckduckgo Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/duckduckgo
/usr/share/doc/duckduckgo
/usr/share/doc/duckduckgo/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/duckduckgo/README
/usr/share/man/man1/duckduckgo.1.gz

References

duckduckgo website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install duckduckgo on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).