How To Install connect-proxy on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install connect-proxy
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is connect-proxy
connect-proxy is:
connect-proxy is a simple relaying command to make tunnel TCP connection via SOCKS or HTTPS proxies. It is mainly intended to be used as proxy command of OpenSSH.
There are three methods to install connect-proxy
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install connect-proxy Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install connect-proxy
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install connect-proxy
Install connect-proxy Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install connect-proxy
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install connect-proxy
Install connect-proxy 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install connect-proxy
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install connect-proxy
How To Uninstall connect-proxy on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the connect-proxy
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove connect-proxy
Uninstall connect-proxy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall connect-proxy
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove connect-proxy
Remove connect-proxy Configurations and Data
To remove connect-proxy
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge connect-proxy
Remove connect-proxy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove connect-proxy
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge connect-proxy
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install connect-proxy
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.