How To Install surf 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 surf on Ubuntu.

What is `surf`

surf is:

surf is a simple web browser based on WebKit/GTK+. It is able to display websites and follow links. It supports the XEmbed protocol which makes it possible to embed it in another application. Furthermore, one can point surf to another URI by setting its XProperties.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install surf

Install surf Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install surf

Install surf 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 surf using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install surf

How To Uninstall surf on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove surf

Uninstall surf And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove surf

Remove surf Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge surf

Remove surf configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge surf

Dependencies

surf have the following dependencies:

References

surf website

Summary

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