How To Install surfraw-extra on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install surfraw-extra on Debian 9.
What is surfraw-extra
surfraw-extra is:
surfraw-extra contains extra website search tools for surfraw that have large dependency trees. Currently surfraw-extra only contains support tools for the opensearch elvi:
opensearch-discover - find an opensearch link from a URL. opensearch-genquery - construct a search URL from an opensearch description
Surfraw - Shell Users’ Revolutionary Front Rage Against the World Wide Web
Surfraw provides a fast unix command line interface to a variety of popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power. It reclaims google, altavista, dejanews, freshmeat, research index, slashdot and many others from the false-prophet, pox-infested heathen lands of html-forms, placing these wonders where they belong, deep in unix heartland, as god loving extensions to the shell.
Surfraw abstracts the browser away from input. Doing so lets it get on with what it’s good at. Browsing. Interpretation of linguistic forms is handed back to the shell, which is what it, and human beings are good at. Combined with incremental text browsers, such as links, w3m (or even lynx), and screen(1), or netscape-remote a Surfraw liberateur is capable of research speeds that leave GUI tainted idolaters agape with fear and wonder.
There are three methods to install surfraw-extra on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install surfraw-extra Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install surfraw-extra using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install surfraw-extra
Install surfraw-extra Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install surfraw-extra using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install surfraw-extra
Install surfraw-extra 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install surfraw-extra using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install surfraw-extra
How To Uninstall surfraw-extra on Debian 9
To uninstall only the surfraw-extra package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove surfraw-extra
Uninstall surfraw-extra And Its Dependencies
To uninstall surfraw-extra and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove surfraw-extra
Remove surfraw-extra Configurations and Data
To remove surfraw-extra configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge surfraw-extra
Remove surfraw-extra configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove surfraw-extra configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge surfraw-extra
Dependencies
surfraw-extra have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install surfraw-extra package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.