How To Install surfraw on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install surfraw
on Kali Linux.
What is surfraw
surfraw is:
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
on Kali Linux. 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 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install surfraw
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install surfraw Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install surfraw
using apt
by running the following command:
Install surfraw Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install surfraw
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall surfraw on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the surfraw
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall surfraw And Its Dependencies
To uninstall surfraw
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove surfraw Configurations and Data
To remove surfraw
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove surfraw configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove surfraw
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
surfraw have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install surfraw
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.