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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install privoxy using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install privoxy
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install privoxy using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install privoxy
How To Uninstall privoxy on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the privoxy package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove privoxy
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install privoxy on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
