searx-run command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

searx-run: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: searx-run: command not found

Solutions to searx-run: command not found

How To Fix searx-run: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu searx-run is provided by searx package.

searx is:

Searx is an internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Searx runs as a web service and provides a web interface that allows the user to do a general search (aggregating results from google, bing, yahoo) or search for files (piratebay, kickass, torrentz), images (bing, deviantart, google images, flickr), IT (github, stackoverflow, Arch Linux wiki), maps (OpenStreetMap, photon), music (youtube, spotify, soundcloud), news (bing news, google news, reddit), science (arxiv, wolframalpha) social media (digg, twitter) and videos (youtube, dailymotion, vimeo).

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install searx

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install searx.

sudo apt -y install searx

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install searx

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix searx-run command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.