Upstream installation guide:

    https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/dev/install/installation.html

The Debian setup varies at some points. Here is the most simple setup that
starts searx in the foreground without daemonization:

 1. Copy the default configuration file

    $ mkdir /etc/searx
    $ gzip --to-stdout --decompress /usr/share/doc/searx/examples/settings.yml.gz > /etc/searx/settings.yml

 2. Generate a secret key

    $ sed -i -e "s/ultrasecretkey/$(openssl rand -hex 16)/g" /etc/searx/settings.yml

 3. Start searx

    $ searx-run

 4. Try it out

    $ sensible-browser 127.0.0.1:8888

It follows a step by step instruction of how to setup searx as a uwsgi service
behind nginx:

 1. Copy and symlink the nginx configuration

    $ cp /usr/share/doc/searx/examples/nginx/sites-available/searx /etc/nginx/sites-available
    $ ln -s ../sites-available/searx /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/searx

 2. Copy and symlink the uwsgi configuration

    $ cp /usr/share/doc/searx/examples/uwsgi/apps-available/searx.ini /etc/uwsgi/apps-available
    $ ln -s ../apps-available/searx.ini /etc/uwsgi/apps-enabled/searx.ini

 3. Copy the default configuration file

    $ mkdir /etc/searx
    $ gzip --to-stdout --decompress /usr/share/doc/searx/examples/settings.yml.gz > /etc/searx/settings.yml

 4. Generate a secret key

    $ sed -i -e "s/ultrasecretkey/$(openssl rand -hex 16)/g" /etc/searx/settings.yml

 5. Restart nginx and uwsgi

    $ systemctl restart nginx
    $ systemctl restart uwsgi

The differences to the upstream instructions are:

 - the uwsgi user and group are www-data
 - python3 is used instead of python2
 - no virtualenv is used
 - uwsgi pythonpath and chdir are Debian-specific
 - no root directive is set in nginx configuration