How To Install 3proxy on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install 3proxy on CentOS 8. 3proxy is Tiny but very powerful proxy

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install 3proxy on CentOS 8.

What is 3proxy

3proxy – light proxy server. Universal proxy server with HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS v4, SOCKS v4a, SOCKS v5, FTP, POP3, UDP and TCP portmapping, access control, bandwith control, traffic limitation and accounting based on username, client IP, target IP, day time, day of week, etc.

We can use yum or dnf to install 3proxy on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install 3proxy.

Install 3proxy on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install 3proxy using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install 3proxy

Install 3proxy on CentOS 8 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install 3proxy using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install 3proxy

How To Uninstall 3proxy on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the 3proxy package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove 3proxy

3proxy Package Contents on CentOS 8

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install 3proxy on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.