How to Install and Uninstall surf Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 09,2024

1. Install "surf" package

This guide let you learn how to install surf on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                surf
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "surf" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall surf on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                surf
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the surf package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: surf
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.0+git20190208-2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/web
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Reiner Herrmann
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 111
Provides: www-browser
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libgcr-base-3-1 (>= 3.8.0), libgcr-ui-3-1 (>= 3.8.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.28.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.19.12), libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 (>= 2.15.1), libx11-6
Recommends: stterm | x-terminal-emulator, curl, suckless-tools (>= 43-1~), x11-utils
Suggests: apparmor
Filename: pool/universe/s/surf/surf_2.0+git20190208-2_amd64.deb
Size: 26840
MD5sum: 1652875d30254428731d4cd6b2e93dce
SHA1: bd7c20c3db3962a24dae76857b6d287cea764796
SHA256: 746f40926c34a98e5769297309c188cc08b074a0ca82d92a51b5ac99248768f5
SHA512: 5a5b88b964e02c950ab8b000a1976b858cc78cea1b5af192d2086721efda4358c8d6205009f05d7f0d37afa2b758fefaef4f88b8a372ce08e645e2a2f7556293
Homepage: https://surf.suckless.org
Description-en: Simple web browser by suckless community
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.
Description-md5: 48b14cb1dc67b6050e5c5ab4d42accb3