How To Install shadowsocks on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install shadowsocks on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove shadowsocks
Remove shadowsocks Configurations and Data
To remove shadowsocks configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install shadowsocks package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
