How To Install shadowsocks on Debian 10

Learn how to install shadowsocks on Debian 10 with this tutorial. shadowsocks is Fast tunnel proxy that helps you bypass firewalls

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install shadowsocks on Debian 10.

What is shadowsocks

shadowsocks is:

A secure socks5 proxy, designed to protect your Internet traffic.

This package contain local and server part of shadowsocks, a fast, powerful tunnel proxy to bypass firewalls.

There are three methods to install shadowsocks on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install shadowsocks Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install shadowsocks using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install shadowsocks

Install shadowsocks Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install shadowsocks using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install shadowsocks

Install shadowsocks 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install shadowsocks using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install shadowsocks

How To Uninstall shadowsocks on Debian 10

To uninstall only the shadowsocks package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove shadowsocks

Uninstall shadowsocks And Its Dependencies

To uninstall shadowsocks and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove shadowsocks

Remove shadowsocks Configurations and Data

To remove shadowsocks configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge shadowsocks

Remove shadowsocks configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove shadowsocks configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge shadowsocks

Dependencies

shadowsocks have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install shadowsocks package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.