How to Install and Uninstall surfraw Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "surfraw" package

This is a short guide on how to install surfraw on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall surfraw on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: surfraw
Priority: optional
Section: universe/web
Installed-Size: 414
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian surfraw maintainers
Architecture: all
Version: 2.2.9-1
Depends: lynx | www-browser
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_2.2.9-1_all.deb
Size: 101260
MD5sum: e378b5ab1fe0786db6fccde2a61c4d66
SHA1: 494416f75def05af8e0934f05828d0ce37aa6c5e
SHA256: 8f0b31ee35defadfb4fbcd5fb28e84ca2386c188c094f189d043552346c301ac
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
Homepage: http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu