How To Install searx on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install searx
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 20.04. 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 20.04
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 20.04, 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 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install searx
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.