How To Install tinyproxy on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tinyproxy on Fedora 34.
What is tinyproxy
tinyproxy is a small, efficient HTTP/SSL proxy daemon that is very useful in a small network setting, where a larger proxy like Squid would either be too resource intensive, or a security risk.
We can use yum or dnf to install tinyproxy on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tinyproxy.
Install tinyproxy 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 tinyproxy using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tinyproxy
Install tinyproxy 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 tinyproxy using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tinyproxy
How To Uninstall tinyproxy on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the tinyproxy package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tinyproxy
tinyproxy Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/logrotate.d/tinyproxy
/etc/tinyproxy
/etc/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.conf
/run/tinyproxy
/usr/bin/tinyproxy
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/fac493bacf44365723dbd64068a5f61b0bb0d9
/usr/lib/systemd/system/tinyproxy.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tinyproxy.conf
/usr/share/doc/tinyproxy
/usr/share/doc/tinyproxy/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/tinyproxy/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/tinyproxy/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/tinyproxy/README
/usr/share/doc/tinyproxy/README.md
/usr/share/doc/tinyproxy/filter-howto.txt
/usr/share/doc/tinyproxy/http-error-codes.txt
/usr/share/doc/tinyproxy/http-rfcs.txt
/usr/share/man/man5/tinyproxy.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/tinyproxy.8.gz
/usr/share/tinyproxy
/usr/share/tinyproxy/debug.html
/usr/share/tinyproxy/default.html
/usr/share/tinyproxy/stats.html
/var/log/tinyproxy
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tinyproxy on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.