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

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "surfraw-extra" package

This tutorial shows how to install surfraw-extra on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall surfraw-extra on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                surfraw-extra
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the surfraw-extra package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: surfraw-extra
Priority: optional
Section: universe/web
Installed-Size: 94
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian surfraw maintainers
Architecture: all
Source: surfraw
Version: 2.2.9-1
Depends: surfraw, lynx | www-browser, libwww-opensearch-perl, libwww-perl, libhtml-parser-perl
Recommends: links | elinks | elinks-lite | w3m | w3m-ssl | lynx-cur
Suggests: screen
Breaks: surfraw (<< 2.1.7)
Filename: pool/universe/s/surfraw/surfraw-extra_2.2.9-1_all.deb
Size: 13860
MD5sum: 428f7912fee31e3d23d7a89e651b164f
SHA1: aaf715d7320bd82f8e90ace0e8056f6ac6f969c9
SHA256: 463cad3691c2bd7b2819f488536478b98a94bc8205875f5b4e856b2228420c49
Description-en: extra surfraw search tools with heavy dependencies
surfraw-extra contains extra website search tools for surfraw that
have large dependency trees. Currently surfraw-extra only contains
support tools for the opensearch elvi:
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opensearch-discover - find an opensearch link from a URL.
opensearch-genquery - construct a search URL from an opensearch description
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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: dc407835e4f6e2cd000dd7a210959602
Homepage: http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu