How To Install ocproxy on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ocproxy on Rocky Linux 8.
What is ocproxy
OCProxy is a user-level SOCKS and port forwarding proxy for OpenConnect based on lwIP. When using ocproxy, OpenConnect only handles network activity that the user specifically asks to proxy, so the VPN interface no longer “hijacks” all network traffic on the host.
We can use yum or dnf to install ocproxy on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ocproxy.
Install ocproxy on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install ocproxy using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ocproxy
Install ocproxy on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install ocproxy using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ocproxy
How To Uninstall ocproxy on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the ocproxy package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ocproxy
ocproxy Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/ocproxy
/usr/bin/vpnns
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/32
/usr/lib/.build-id/32/8b8173d06995c36f5d02e5aeb677f3acc0251c
/usr/lib/.build-id/79
/usr/lib/.build-id/79/d4dc220dd8d209a064c82f92f5f36c52e91280
/usr/share/doc/ocproxy
/usr/share/doc/ocproxy/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/ocproxy/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/ocproxy
/usr/share/licenses/ocproxy/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/ocproxy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/vpnns.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ocproxy on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.