How To Install tsocks on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tsocks on Ubuntu.
What is tsocks
tsocks is:
tsocks provides transparent network access through a SOCKS version 4 or 5 proxy (usually on a firewall). tsocks intercepts the calls applications make to establish TCP connections and transparently proxies them as necessary. This allows existing applications to use SOCKS without recompilation or modification.
There are three methods to install tsocks on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install tsocks Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tsocks using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tsocks
Install tsocks Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tsocks using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tsocks
Install tsocks Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install tsocks using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tsocks
How To Uninstall tsocks on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the tsocks package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tsocks
Uninstall tsocks And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tsocks and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tsocks
Remove tsocks Configurations and Data
To remove tsocks configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tsocks
Remove tsocks configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tsocks configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tsocks
Dependencies
tsocks have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tsocks package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.