How To Install ocproxy on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ocproxy on CentOS 8.
What is ocproxy
OCProxy is a user-level SOCKS and port forwarding proxy for OpenConnect based on lwIP. When using ocproxy, OpenConnect only handles network activity that the user specifically asks to proxy, so the VPN interface no longer “hijacks” all network traffic on the host.
We can use yum or dnf to install ocproxy on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ocproxy.
Install ocproxy 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 ocproxy using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ocproxy
Install ocproxy 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 ocproxy using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ocproxy
How To Uninstall ocproxy on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the ocproxy package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ocproxy
ocproxy Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/ocproxy
/usr/bin/vpnns
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/32
/usr/lib/.build-id/32/8b8173d06995c36f5d02e5aeb677f3acc0251c
/usr/lib/.build-id/79
/usr/lib/.build-id/79/d4dc220dd8d209a064c82f92f5f36c52e91280
/usr/share/doc/ocproxy
/usr/share/doc/ocproxy/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/ocproxy/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/ocproxy
/usr/share/licenses/ocproxy/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/ocproxy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/vpnns.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ocproxy on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.