How To Install searx on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install searx on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is searx
searx is:
Searx is an internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Searx runs as a web service and provides a web interface that allows the user to do a general search (aggregating results from google, bing, yahoo) or search for files (piratebay, kickass, torrentz), images (bing, deviantart, google images, flickr), IT (github, stackoverflow, Arch Linux wiki), maps (OpenStreetMap, photon), music (youtube, spotify, soundcloud), news (bing news, google news, reddit), science (arxiv, wolframalpha) social media (digg, twitter) and videos (youtube, dailymotion, vimeo).
There are three methods to install searx on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install searx Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install searx using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install searx
Install searx Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install searx using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install searx
Install searx 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install searx using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install searx
How To Uninstall searx on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the searx package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove searx
Uninstall searx And Its Dependencies
To uninstall searx and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove searx
Remove searx Configurations and Data
To remove searx configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge searx
Remove searx configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove searx configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge searx
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install searx package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
