How To Install proxytunnel on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install proxytunnel on CentOS 8.
What is proxytunnel
ProxyTunnel is a program that connects stdin and stdout to a server somewhere on the network, through a standard HTTPS proxy. We mostly use it to tunnel SSH sessions through HTTP(S) proxies. Proxytunnel can currently do the following * Create tunnels using HTTP and HTTPS proxies (That understand the HTTP CONNECT command). * Work as a back-end driver for an OpenSSH client, and create SSH connections through HTTP(S) proxies. * Work as a stand-alone application, listening on a port for connections, and then tunneling these connections to a specified destination.
We can use yum or dnf to install proxytunnel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install proxytunnel.
Install proxytunnel 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 proxytunnel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install proxytunnel
Install proxytunnel 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 proxytunnel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install proxytunnel
How To Uninstall proxytunnel on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the proxytunnel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove proxytunnel
proxytunnel Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/proxytunnel
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/41
/usr/lib/.build-id/41/5beba187e6e30f382750bccf3195180f8b6aed
/usr/share/doc/proxytunnel
/usr/share/doc/proxytunnel/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/proxytunnel/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/proxytunnel/KNOWN_ISSUES
/usr/share/doc/proxytunnel/README.md
/usr/share/doc/proxytunnel/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/proxytunnel
/usr/share/licenses/proxytunnel/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/proxytunnel.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install proxytunnel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.