How To Install torsocks on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install torsocks on CentOS 8.
What is torsocks
Torsocks allows you to use most SOCKS-friendly applications in a safe way with Tor. It ensures that DNS requests are handled safely and explicitly rejects UDP traffic from the application you’re using.
We can use yum or dnf to install torsocks on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install torsocks.
Install torsocks 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 torsocks using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install torsocks
Install torsocks 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 torsocks using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install torsocks
How To Uninstall torsocks on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the torsocks package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove torsocks
torsocks Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/bash_completion.d/torsocks
/etc/tor/torsocks.conf
/usr/bin/torsocks
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/01
/usr/lib/.build-id/01/55a27925062dfba1928b5d7ef4b987424c90f3
/usr/lib64/torsocks
/usr/lib64/torsocks/libtorsocks.so
/usr/lib64/torsocks/libtorsocks.so.0
/usr/lib64/torsocks/libtorsocks.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/torsocks
/usr/share/doc/torsocks/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/torsocks/DEBUG
/usr/share/doc/torsocks/socks-extensions.txt
/usr/share/licenses/torsocks
/usr/share/licenses/torsocks/gpl-2.0.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/torsocks.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/torsocks.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/torsocks.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install torsocks on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.