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Backport searx 1.0.0+dfsg1-1 from testing to stable

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Backport searx 1.0.0+dfsg1-1 from testing to stable

#1 Post by kedaha »

Good news about searx 1.0.0+dfsg1-1 having migrated to testing.
Version 0.18.0+dfsg1-1 in bullseye, may be installed for a desktop system as detailed here or server as detailed in my other topic; the stable version is fine but the newer searx 1.0.0+dfsg1-1 version in testing can be backported by using the SimpleBackportCreation method, which I've tested in qemu.
Note that before building the package with:

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dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
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dpkg-source --commit
when all that is needed is to make up some name for the patch.
And before (assuming one makes no change to the version number):

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# dpkg -i python3-searx_1.0.0+dfsg1-1~bpo11+1_all.deb searx_1.0.0+dfsg1-1~bpo11+1_all.deb
You will likely need

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# apt install python3-langdetect
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Re: Backport searx 1.0.0+dfsg1-1 from testing to stable

#2 Post by oswaldkelso »

Searx is great. I have it setup as on my Freedombox. It takes a little tweaking to get right but the results are way better than DDG. Not as hard it seems and the search returns from DDG have been very poor for me.

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Re: Backport searx 1.0.0+dfsg1-1 from testing to stable

#3 Post by sunrat »

kedaha wrote: 2021-12-15 20:14 And before (assuming one makes no change to the version number):

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# dpkg -i python3-searx_1.0.0+dfsg1-1~bpo11+1_all.deb searx_1.0.0+dfsg1-1~bpo11+1_all.deb
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# apt install python3-langdetect
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apt install ./python3-searx_1.0.0+dfsg1-1~bpo11+1_all.deb ./searx_1.0.0+dfsg1-1~bpo11+1_all.deb
and apt would pull in any dependencies needed.

I must try Searx soon. I did try DDG recently and the results were disappointing particularly for Linux-related searches. Back to Startpage now which is better, basically obfuscated Google searches whereas DDG is obfuscated Bing searches.
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Re: Backport searx 1.0.0+dfsg1-1 from testing to stable

#4 Post by kedaha »

sunrat wrote: 2021-12-19 22:29 You could do

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apt install ./python3-searx_1.0.0+dfsg1-1~bpo11+1_all.deb ./searx_1.0.0+dfsg1-1~bpo11+1_all.deb
and apt would pull in any dependencies needed.
Thanks, I always forget it can be done with apt. :wink:
An alternative is gdebi.
sunrat wrote: 2021-12-19 22:29I must try Searx soon.
Yes, definitely.
One reason why Searx may not be used very much is because setting up one's own instance doesn't work out-of-the-box. An installation script would be useful, whereby it would be made available automatically, following installation via, for example KDE Discover, as an addon in Debian's firefox-esr or, preferably, in the list of available search engines.
At present the best way to use it, in my view, is in Freedombox: wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/Searx.
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Re: Backport searx 1.0.0+dfsg1-1 from testing to stable

#5 Post by Uptorn »

Version 0.18 still works okay for me. Is there any reason that one should upgrade?

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Re: Backport searx 1.0.0+dfsg1-1 from testing to stable

#6 Post by kedaha »

Uptorn wrote: 2022-01-22 03:09 Version 0.18 still works okay for me. Is there any reason that one should upgrade?
Hi,
If using stable, then, unless one really must have some new feature only available in the package from testing, I think there's no other good reason to use a more recent version, specially on a server, since the current version works okay. The stable package is always the first choice and that is true for all Debian packages.
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