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Running SearXNG on Linux Mint

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

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python

First thing to do is create a searxng user and log into it.

sudo userdel -r searxng

sudo useradd -m -s /bin/bash searxng

sudo passwd searxng

sudo usermod -aG sudo searxng

sudo su - searxng

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

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-*)

You then need to change every instances of


ubuntu-*|debian-*)


ubuntu-*|debian-*|linuxmint-*)

The file it gets its Linux installation name is /etc/os-release variable ID


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

cat /etc/os-release

the files in reference are...

./utils/searxng.sh
./utils/lib.sh
./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' {} +


find . -type f -exec sed -i 's/ubuntu-\*|debian-\*)/ubuntu-\*|debian-\*|linuxmint-\*)/g' {} +

Then make the directory in /usr/local

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/searxng

sudo chown searxng:searxng /usr/local/searxng

Then run the installation script...

sudo -H ./utils/searxng.sh install all

Disable the searxng user login

sudo usermod searxng -s /sbin/nologin

http://url/searxng

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

# -- coding: utf-8; mode: apache --

LoadModule ssl_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_ssl.so

LoadModule headers_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_headers.so

LoadModule proxy_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy.so

LoadModule proxy_uwsgi_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy_uwsgi.so

# LoadModule setenvif_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_setenvif.so # # SetEnvIf Request_URI /searxng dontlog # CustomLog /dev/null combined env=dontlog

ServerName search.imtcoin.com

#<Location /searxng>

Require all granted

Order deny,allow

Deny from all

# Allow from fd00::/8 192.168.0.0/16 fe80::/10 127.0.0.0/8 ::1

Allow from all

# add the trailing slash

RedirectMatch 308 /searxng$ /searxng/

ProxyPreserveHost On

ProxyPass unix:/usr/local/searxng/run/socket|uwsgi://uwsgi-uds-searxng/

ProxyPassReverse /

# see flaskfix.py

RequestHeader set X-Scheme %{REQUEST_SCHEME}s

# RequestHeader set X-Script-Name /searxng

# see limiter.py

RequestHeader set X-Real-IP %{REMOTE_ADDR}s

RequestHeader append X-Forwarded-For %{REMOTE_ADDR}s

</Location>

# uWSGI serves the static files and in settings.yml we use:: # # ui: # static_use_hash: true # # Alias /searxng/static/ /usr/local/searxng/searxng-src/searx/static/

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =search.imtcoin.com

RewriteRule https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]

</VirtualHost>