How to Install and Uninstall surfraw Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: January 11,2025

1. Install "surfraw" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install surfraw on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

Learn how to uninstall surfraw on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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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 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: surfraw
Architecture: all
Version: 2.3.0-0.3
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_2.3.0-0.3_all.deb
Size: 97456
MD5sum: 00497981edd8813896b82e983b618701
SHA1: 407acf18ae596ce769daac5c190bae64fb39c971
SHA256: bdb36a29165aa6e36cddaa00a1f6484315cfe5caf9c5a9538b15bbdf97c31f3c
SHA512: 4e9e100ec79a843e2f130a42e90473984bf0c27f8c30481ae966030b21cffc46bcf2564b38cb03cbd1e8a45c5448d9a0386e620c049607dcc99094a94679d72b
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