How To Install fteproxy on Debian 10

Learn how to install fteproxy on Debian 10 with this tutorial. fteproxy is programmable proxy for censorship circumvention

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fteproxy on Debian 10.

What is fteproxy

fteproxy is:

fteproxy provides transport-layer protection to resist keyword filtering, censorship and discrimantory routing policies. Its job is to relay datastreams, such as web browsing traffic, by encoding the stream into messages that satisfy a user-specified regular expression and are thus considered “safe” by the censors.

There are three methods to install fteproxy on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install fteproxy Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install fteproxy using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fteproxy

Install fteproxy Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install fteproxy using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install fteproxy

Install fteproxy Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install fteproxy using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fteproxy

How To Uninstall fteproxy on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove fteproxy

Uninstall fteproxy And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fteproxy and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fteproxy

Remove fteproxy Configurations and Data

To remove fteproxy configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fteproxy

Remove fteproxy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove fteproxy configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fteproxy

Dependencies

fteproxy have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fteproxy package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.