How To Install trojan on CentOS 8

trojan is An unidentifiable mechanism that helps you avoid censorship

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install trojan on CentOS 8.

What is trojan

An unidentifiable mechanism that helps you avoid censorship. Trojan features multiple protocols over TLS to avoid both active/passive detection and ISP QoS limitations. Trojan is not a fixed program or protocol. It’s an idea, an idea that imitating the most common service, to an extent that it behaves identically, could help you get across the Great FireWall permanently, without being identified ever.

We can use yum or dnf to install trojan on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install trojan.

Install trojan 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 trojan using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install trojan

Install trojan 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 trojan using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install trojan

How To Uninstall trojan on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the trojan package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove trojan

trojan Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/trojan
/etc/trojan/config.json
/usr/bin/trojan
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/66
/usr/lib/.build-id/66/d6f8cf119e48628a2fdc0abe401225a54d8f83
/usr/lib/systemd/system/trojan.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/share/doc/trojan
/usr/share/doc/trojan/README.md
/usr/share/doc/trojan/authenticator.md
/usr/share/doc/trojan/build.md
/usr/share/doc/trojan/config.md
/usr/share/doc/trojan/examples
/usr/share/doc/trojan/examples/client.json-example
/usr/share/doc/trojan/examples/forward.json-example
/usr/share/doc/trojan/examples/nat.json-example
/usr/share/doc/trojan/examples/server.json-example
/usr/share/doc/trojan/overview.md
/usr/share/doc/trojan/protocol.md
/usr/share/doc/trojan/usage.md
/usr/share/licenses/trojan
/usr/share/licenses/trojan/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/trojan.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install trojan on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.