How To Install proxychains-ng on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install proxychains-ng on CentOS 8. proxychains-ng is Redirect connections through proxy servers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install proxychains-ng on CentOS 8.

What is proxychains-ng

ProxyChains NG is based on ProxyChains. ProxyChains NG hooks network-related (TCP only) libc functions in dynamically linked programs via a preloaded DSO (dynamic shared object) and redirects the connections through one or more SOCKS4a/5 or HTTP proxies. Since Proxy Chains NG relies on the dynamic linker, statically linked binaries are not supported.

We can use yum or dnf to install proxychains-ng on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install proxychains-ng.

Install proxychains-ng on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install proxychains-ng using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install proxychains-ng

Install proxychains-ng on CentOS 8 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 proxychains-ng using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install proxychains-ng

How To Uninstall proxychains-ng on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the proxychains-ng package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove proxychains-ng

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install proxychains-ng on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.