How To Install connect-proxy on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install connect-proxy on CentOS 8.
What is connect-proxy
connect-proxy is the simple relaying command to make network connection via SOCKS and https proxy. It is mainly intended to be used as proxy command of OpenSSH. You can make SSH session beyond the firewall with this command. Features of connect-proxy are * Supports SOCKS (version 4/4a/5) and https CONNECT method. * Supports NO-AUTH and USERPASS authentication of SOCKS * Partially supports telnet proxy (experimental). * You can input password from tty, ssh-askpass or environment variable. * Simple and general program independent from OpenSSH. * You can also relay local socket stream instead of standard I/O.
We can use yum or dnf to install connect-proxy on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install connect-proxy.
Install connect-proxy on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install connect-proxy using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install connect-proxy
Install connect-proxy on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install connect-proxy using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install connect-proxy
How To Uninstall connect-proxy on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the connect-proxy package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove connect-proxy
connect-proxy Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/connect-proxy
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/23
/usr/lib/.build-id/23/9c0d3c79a135e077220e3a57bf1c15da69bae6
/usr/share/doc/connect-proxy
/usr/share/doc/connect-proxy/connect.html
/usr/share/man/man1/connect-proxy.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install connect-proxy on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.