How To Install microsocks on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install microsocks on Kali Linux.

What is microsocks

microsocks is:

MicroSocks - multithreaded, small, efficient SOCKS5 server, is a SOCKS5 service that you can run on your remote boxes to tunnel connections through them, if for some reason SSH doesn’t cut it for you.

• It’s very lightweight, and very light on resources too.
• It’s also designed to be robust: it handles resource exhaustion gracefully by simply denying new connections, instead of calling abort() as most other programs do these days.
• Another plus is ease-of-use: no config file necessary, everything can be done from the command line and doesn’t even need any parameters for quick setup.

There are three methods to install microsocks on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install microsocks Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install microsocks using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install microsocks

Install microsocks Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install microsocks using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install microsocks

Install microsocks Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install microsocks using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install microsocks

How To Uninstall microsocks on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the microsocks package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove microsocks

Uninstall microsocks And Its Dependencies

To uninstall microsocks and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove microsocks

Remove microsocks Configurations and Data

To remove microsocks configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge microsocks

Remove microsocks configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove microsocks configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge microsocks

Dependencies

microsocks have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• microsocks website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install microsocks package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.