Script Installtion on Debian 11

Prerequisites

Install Git

sudo apt install git

Install curl

sudo apt install curl

Install

Clone the github repository to a local folder.

The official repository is at: https://github.com/searxng/searxng. Documentation can be found at https://docs.searxng.org/admin/installation-scripts.html#installation-scripts

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

Change directory into the searxng folder.

cd searxng

Run the official script installer. Details of the script can be found at https://github.com/searxng/searxng/blob/master/utils/searxng.sh

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

The script will start off by updating repository and installing the required packages. Once packages are installed, script will pause and ask for user interaction to continue to the next phase, which is creating a searx user.

Press ANY Key to continue.

Cloning source into searx user directory.

Creating python virtual env.

Create initial settings file.

Automated initial testing.

Install uwsgi

Install redis

And finally, the script is finish.

Install Webserver

Before SearXNG can be use, we will need to install a webserver. SearXNG does not have any preference for which web server to use, so choose the web server you're most familiar with. 

I am using NGINX as my web server.