How To Install googler on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install googler on Rocky Linux 8.
What is googler
googler is a power tool to access Google (Web & News) websites and Google Site Search website from the command-line. It shows the title, URL and abstract for each result, which can be directly opened in a browser from the terminal. Results are fetched in pages (with page navigation). Supports sequential searches in a single googler instance. googler was initially written to cater to headless servers without X. You can integrate it with a text-based browser. However, it has grown into a very handy and flexible utility that delivers much more. For example, fetch any number of results or start anywhere, limit search by any duration, define aliases to google search any number of websites, switch domains easily… all of this in a very clean interface without ads or stray URLs. The shell completion scripts make sure you don’t need to remember any options. googler isn’t affiliated to Google in any way.
We can use yum or dnf to install googler on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install googler.
Install googler on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install googler using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install googler
Install googler on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install googler using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install googler
How To Uninstall googler on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the googler package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove googler
googler Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/googler
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/googler-completion.bash
/usr/share/doc/googler
/usr/share/doc/googler/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/googler/README.md
/usr/share/fish/vendor_functions.d
/usr/share/fish/vendor_functions.d/googler.fish
/usr/share/licenses/googler
/usr/share/licenses/googler/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/googler.1.gz
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_googler
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install googler on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.