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

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "surfraw" package

This tutorial shows how to install surfraw on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall surfraw on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


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

Package: surfraw
Architecture: all
Version: 2.3.0-0.2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/web
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian surfraw maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 509
Depends: lynx | www-browser, sensible-utils
Recommends: surfraw-extra (>> 2.2.7-1), links | elinks | elinks-lite | w3m, curl | wget | libwww-perl
Suggests: screen
Breaks: surfraw-extra (<= 2.2.7-1)
Filename: pool/universe/s/surfraw/surfraw_2.3.0-0.2_all.deb
Size: 97380
MD5sum: f3885560568460a8e1a6120d9f488692
SHA1: 59cb0d535c79bf253e29ac164890d5c0eb69109c
SHA256: 9ebd39628054ab9f7ab8020c4447fb3e54acf1370c9d37c142b71189ec73f6dc
SHA512: 5bb694c9d051d692f1ffc3188da494f8584967cf9737191b71d548665f510e054218c68c13f67fde50e7aa49f20b6b884bf913ce65782763633ccb2997d84dbe
Homepage: http://gitlab.com/Surfraw/surfraw
Description-en: fast unix command line interface to WWW
Surfraw - Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Rage Against the World Wide Web
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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.
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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.
Description-md5: 524983f08a36475caf4af72611753cdb