How To Install tsocks on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tsocks on Ubuntu 22.04.
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 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install 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 22.04
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 22.04, 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 22.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tsocks package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.