How To Install googler on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install googler on Kali Linux. googler is Power tool to Google (Web & News) and Google Site Search from the terminal

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install googler on Kali Linux.

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 Kali Linux. 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 on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. 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 Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove googler

Remove googler Configurations and Data

To remove googler configuration and data from Kali Linux 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 Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.