How To Install morty 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 morty on Ubuntu.

What is `morty`

morty is:

Morty Web content sanitizer proxy as a service

Morty rewrites web pages to exclude malicious HTML tags and attributes. It also replaces external resource references to prevent third party information leaks.

The main goal of morty is to provide a result proxy for searx, but it can be used as a standalone sanitizer service too.

Features:

HTML sanitization
Rewrites HTML/CSS external references to locals
JavaScript blocking
No Cookies forwarded
No Referrers
No Caching/Etag
Supports GET/POST forms and IFrames
Optional HMAC URL verifier key to prevent service abuse

There are three methods to install morty 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 morty Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install morty using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install morty

Install morty Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install morty using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install morty

Install morty 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 morty using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install morty

How To Uninstall morty on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the morty package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove morty

Uninstall morty And Its Dependencies

To uninstall morty and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove morty

Remove morty Configurations and Data

To remove morty configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge morty

Remove morty configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove morty configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge morty

Dependencies

morty have the following dependencies:

References

morty website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install morty package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.