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Google's practices of censorship and shadowbanning contribute to a less informed society and a weakened education system. To mitigate these effects, consider using searXNG. Here are the steps to install it on Linux Mint. You need a working python environment as searxng is written in python.

sudo apt install redis-server apache2 python3 -y
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sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python
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First thing to do is create a searxng user and log into it.

sudo userdel -r searxng
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sudo useradd -m -s /bin/bash searxng
sudo passwd searxng
sudo usermod -aG sudo searxng
sudo su - searxng
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Download SearXNG. Clone it to the /tmp folder and not the home folder.

git clone https://github.com/searxng/searxng.git
cd searxng
echo "export SEARXNG_SRC=$HOME/searxng" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
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The docs are available at https://docs.searxng.org/

The only supported operating systems are...

        ubuntu-*|debian-*)
            # For uWSGI debian uses the LSB init process; for each configuration
            # file new uWSGI daemon instance is started with additional option.
            service uwsgi status "${SERVICE_NAME}"
            ;;
        arch-*)
            systemctl --no-pager -l status "uwsgi@${SERVICE_NAME%.*}"
            ;;
        fedora-*)
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You then need to change every instances of

ubuntu-*|debian-*)
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to

ubuntu-*|debian-*|linuxmint-*)
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The file it gets its Linux installation name is /etc/os-release variable ID

echo $(source /etc/os-release; echo "$ID");
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or

cat /etc/os-release
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the files in reference are...

1. ./utils/searxng.sh
2. ./utils/lib.sh
3. ./utils/lib_redis.sh

Here are some fast sed commands to do just that...

find . -type f -exec sed -i 's/ubuntu|debian)/ubuntu|debian|linuxmint)/g' {} +
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find . -type f -exec sed -i 's/ubuntu-\*|debian-\*)/ubuntu-\*|debian-\*|linuxmint-\*)/g' {} +
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Then make the directory in /usr/local

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/searxng
sudo chown searxng:searxng /usr/local/searxng
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Then run the installation script...

sudo -H ./utils/searxng.sh install all
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Disable the searxng user login

usermod searxng -s /sbin/nologin
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Some commands:

• sudo rm -rf /usr/local/searxng
• sudo rm -rf /usr/local/searxng-redis
• sudo userdel searxng
• sudo groupdel searxng
• usermod searxng -s /sbin/bash