How To Install privoxy on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install privoxy
on CentOS 7.
What is privoxy
Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, filtering web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks. Privoxy is based on the Internet Junkbuster.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install privoxy
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install privoxy.
Install privoxy on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install privoxy
using yum
by running the following command:
Install privoxy on CentOS 7 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.
After updating yum database, We can install privoxy
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall privoxy on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the privoxy
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install privoxy
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.