How To Install proxychains-ng on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install proxychains-ng in Fedora 36. proxychains-ng is Redirect connections through proxy servers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install proxychains-ng on Fedora 36.

What is `proxychains-ng`

ProxyChains NG is based on ProxyChains. ProxyChains NG hooks network-related (TCP only) libc functions in dynamically linked programs via a preloaded DSO (dynamic shared object) and redirects the connections through one or more SOCKS4a/5 or HTTP proxies. Since Proxy Chains NG relies on the dynamic linker, statically linked binaries are not supported.

We can use yum or dnf to install proxychains-ng on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install proxychains-ng.

Install proxychains-ng on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install proxychains-ng using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install proxychains-ng

Install proxychains-ng on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install proxychains-ng using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install proxychains-ng

How To Uninstall proxychains-ng on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the proxychains-ng package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove proxychains-ng

proxychains-ng Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/proxychains.conf
/usr/bin/proxychains
/usr/bin/proxychains4
/usr/bin/proxychains4-daemon
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b/a870a11434cef6880874b1f93a9fc7afd0dbba
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3/0517a078b9858a287f903ecfeca3e40927f86e
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/5e2f832df2f30c196707138d2a1471cba80572
/usr/lib64/proxychains-ng
/usr/lib64/proxychains-ng/libproxychains4.so
/usr/share/doc/proxychains-ng
/usr/share/doc/proxychains-ng/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/proxychains-ng/README
/usr/share/doc/proxychains-ng/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/proxychains-ng
/usr/share/licenses/proxychains-ng/COPYING

References

proxychains-ng website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install proxychains-ng on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).