Running SearXNG on Linux Mint

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sudo -H apt-get install -y \


    python3-dev python3-babel python3-venv python-is-python3 python3 \


    uwsgi uwsgi-plugin-python3 \


    git build-essential libxslt-dev zlib1g-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev \


    redis-server apache2





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 rm -rf /usr/local/searxng


sudo rm -rf /usr/local/searxng-redis





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/Immortality-IMT/searxng_custom_features.git

# git clone https://github.com/searxng/searxng.git

mv  searxng_custom_features searxng


cd searxng


echo "export SEARXNG_SRC=$HOME/searxng" >> ~/.bashrc


source ~/.bashrc



echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc


source ~/.bashrc





source /usr/local/searxng/searx-pyenv/bin/activate


pip install -U pip setuptools wheel pyyaml msgspec typing_extensions "numpy<2.0" httpx pygments whitenoise flask flask-babel markdown-it-py httpx-socks tomli valkey lxml python-dateutil typer isodate h2 fasttext


pip install -r requirements.txt


deactivate

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-*)

to



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

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



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

or



cat /etc/os-release

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' {} +





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

<VirtualHost *:80>


    ServerName search.imtcoin.com

#<Location /searxng>

<Location />


    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>


<VirtualHost *:443>


    ServerName search.imtcoin.com

#<Location /searxng>

<Location />


    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>


    SSLEngine on


    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/search.imtcoin.com-ssl-error.log


    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/search.imtcoin.com-ssl-access.log combined


    Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf

# 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/

	SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/search.imtcoin.com/fullchain.pem


	SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/search.imtcoin.com/privkey.pem


</VirtualHost>





pip install "numpy<2.0"


pip install typing_extensions


pip install httpx


pip install pygments


pip install whitenoise


pip install flask


pip install flask_babel


pip install markdown-it-py


pip install httpx_socks


pip install tomli


pip install valkey


pip install lxml


pip install python-dateutil


pip install typer


pip install isodate


pip install h2


pip install fasttext

Above as a single command



pip install "numpy<2.0" typing_extensions httpx pygments whitenoise flask flask-babel markdown-it-py httpx-socks tomli valkey lxml python-dateutil typer isodate h2 fasttext

Reset the environment



su - searxng


exit





sudo userdel -r searxng


sudo rm -rf /usr/local/searxng


sudo rm -rf /usr/local/searxng-redis

  

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