How To Install surf on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install surf on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is surf
surf is:
surf is a simple web browser based on WebKit/GTK+. It is able to display websites and follow links. It supports the XEmbed protocol which makes it possible to embed it in another application. Furthermore, one can point surf to another URI by setting its XProperties.
There are three methods to install surf 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 surf Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install surf using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install surf
Install surf Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install surf using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install surf
Install surf 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 surf using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install surf
How To Uninstall surf on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the surf package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove surf
Uninstall surf And Its Dependencies
To uninstall surf and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove surf
Remove surf Configurations and Data
To remove surf configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge surf
Remove surf configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove surf configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge surf
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install surf package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
