How To Install proxytunnel on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install proxytunnel on Fedora 34.
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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install proxytunnel.
Install proxytunnel on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34
To uninstall only the proxytunnel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove proxytunnel
proxytunnel Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/proxytunnel
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e/e3e9cfba1db380580f1272247f64a1a9265bfc
/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.