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Step by step installation
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Step by step installation with virtualenv. For Ubuntu, be sure to have enable universe repository.
Install packages
$DOCS_BUILD/includes/searx.rst
Hint
This installs also the packages needed by searx uwsgi
Create user
$DOCS_BUILD/includes/searx.rst
install searx & dependencies
Start a interactive shell from new created user and clone searx:
$DOCS_BUILD/includes/searx.rst
In the same shell create virtualenv:
$DOCS_BUILD/includes/searx.rst
To install searx's dependencies, exit the searx bash session you opened above and restart a new. Before install, first check if your virualenv was sourced from the login (~/.profile):
$DOCS_BUILD/includes/searx.rst
Tip
Open a second terminal for the configuration tasks and left the (searx)$ terminal open for the tasks below.
Configuration
Create a copy of the searx/settings.yml configuration file in system's /etc folder. Configure like shown below -- replace searx@\$(uname -n) with a name of your choice -- and/or edit /etc/searx/settings.yml if necessary.
$DOCS_BUILD/includes/searx.rst
Check
To check your searx setup, optional enable debugging and start the webapp. Searx looks at the exported environment $SEARX_SETTINGS_PATH for a configuration file.
$DOCS_BUILD/includes/searx.rst
If everything works fine, hit [CTRL-C] to stop the webapp and disable the debug option in settings.yml. You can now exit searx user bash (enter exit command twice). At this point searx is not demonized; uwsgi allows this.