How To Install htdig on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install htdig on Ubuntu.
What is htdig
htdig is:
The ht://Dig system is a complete web search engine for a small domain or intranet. It is not meant to replace the major Internet-wide search engines; instead it is meant to cover the search needs of a single company, campus, or even a particular subsection of a website.
Features:
- intranet searching, spanning multiple local web servers;
- robot exclusion;
- boolean expression searches;
- configurable search results;
- fuzzy searching (various algorithms supported);
- indexing of HTML and text files;
- keyword tagging of HTML documents;
- email notification of expired documents;
- indexing of protected servers;
- searches on subsections of the database;
- limitation of search depth;
- ISO-Latin-1 character set support.
There are three methods to install htdig on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install htdig Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install htdig using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install htdig
Install htdig Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install htdig using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install htdig
Install htdig Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install htdig using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install htdig
How To Uninstall htdig on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the htdig package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove htdig
Uninstall htdig And Its Dependencies
To uninstall htdig and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove htdig
Remove htdig Configurations and Data
To remove htdig configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge htdig
Remove htdig configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove htdig configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge htdig
Dependencies
htdig have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install htdig package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.