Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install surfraw on Kali Linux.
What is surfraw
surfraw is:
Surfraw – Shell Users’ Revolutionary Front Rage Against the World Wide Web
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.
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.
There are three methods to install surfraw on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install surfraw Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install surfraw using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install surfrawInstall surfraw Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install surfraw using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install surfrawInstall surfraw Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install surfraw using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install surfraw
How To Uninstall surfraw on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the surfraw package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove surfraw
Uninstall surfraw And Its Dependencies
To uninstall surfraw and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove surfraw
Remove surfraw Configurations and Data
To remove surfraw configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge surfraw
Remove surfraw configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove surfraw configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge surfraw
Dependencies
surfraw have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install surfraw package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
