PolitePol is an open-source project on GitHub that combines multiple tools and services to create a simple, user-friendly, and customizable privacy-focused search engine. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing PolitePol on Clear Linux Latest.
Before we begin, ensure that your system meets the following prerequisites:
To run PolitePol, you need to install some dependencies. Open the terminal application and run the following command:
sudo swupd bundle-add devpkg-openssl devpkg-python3
This command installs OpenSSL and Python 3, which are required to run PolitePol.
To download and install PolitePol, run the following commands in the terminal:
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/taroved/pol.git
cd pol
sudo python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
These commands will clone the latest version of PolitePol from the GitHub repository, switch to the PolitePol directory, and install the required Python packages.
To start PolitePol, run the following command in the terminal:
sudo python3 run.py
This command starts the PolitePol application, which runs on http://127.0.0.1:5000. You can access PolitePol by opening a web browser and typing in http://127.0.0.1:5000 into the address bar.
You can customize PolitePol to your liking. To do this, open the config.py file in a text editor:
nano config.py
In this file, you can modify the default values for settings such as the search engine name, the search engine description, and the search engine logo.
In this tutorial, we covered the steps required to install PolitePol on Clear Linux Latest. After installing PolitePol, you can start using this easy-to-use, privacy-focused search engine.
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