How To Install privoxy on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install privoxy on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is privoxy
privoxy is:
Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, filtering web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.
Privoxy is based on Internet Junkbuster (tm).
Package: privoxy Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.0.28-2 Priority: optional Section: universe/web Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Roland Rosenfeld [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 2050 Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~) Depends: adduser, debconf, logrotate, lsb-base (>= 3.2-13), ucf, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, libc6 (>= 2.16), libpcre3, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) Recommends: doc-base Filename: pool/universe/p/privoxy/privoxy_3.0.28-2_amd64.deb Size: 496208 MD5sum: ce4bbe173268e25531b32380e29de731 SHA1: 09adfedd0815327aadd6c5530d4fcfd07aa3b1e7 SHA256: 27996df7442d6ec1b3b965ac5af7f7e85f628f93c2fde4271e980a5d89579b36 Homepage: https://www.privoxy.org/ Description-en: Privacy enhancing HTTP Proxy Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, filtering web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.
Privoxy is based on Internet Junkbuster (tm).
There are three methods to install privoxy on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install privoxy Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install privoxy using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install privoxy
Install privoxy Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install privoxy using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install privoxy
Install privoxy 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 privoxy using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install privoxy
How To Uninstall privoxy on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the privoxy package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove privoxy
Uninstall privoxy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall privoxy and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove privoxy
Remove privoxy Configurations and Data
To remove privoxy configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge privoxy
Remove privoxy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove privoxy configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge privoxy
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install privoxy package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
