How To Install proxychains-ng on Rocky Linux 8

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

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install proxychains-ng on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 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 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 proxychains-ng using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install proxychains-ng

Install proxychains-ng 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 proxychains-ng using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install proxychains-ng

How To Uninstall proxychains-ng on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove proxychains-ng

proxychains-ng Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/proxychains.conf
/usr/bin/proxychains
/usr/bin/proxychains4
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f/ddfeab8c6825971d9ecc7b45aeb13528335b6d
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf/c68e8053779cba8fdb4c5f9dfe6211b8f68eb2
/usr/lib64/proxychains-ng
/usr/lib64/proxychains-ng/libproxychains4.so
/usr/share/doc/proxychains-ng
/usr/share/doc/proxychains-ng/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/proxychains-ng/README
/usr/share/doc/proxychains-ng/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/proxychains-ng
/usr/share/licenses/proxychains-ng/COPYING

References

proxychains-ng website

Summary

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