How To Install proxychains4 on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install proxychains4
on Debian 10.
What is proxychains4
proxychains4 is:
Proxychains is a UNIX program, that hooks network-related libc functions in dynamically linked programs via a preloaded DLL (dlsym(), LD_PRELOAD) and redirects the connections through SOCKS4a/5 or HTTP proxies. It supports TCP only (no UDP/ICMP etc).
This project, proxychains-ng, is the continuation of the unmaintained proxychains project (known as proxychains package in Debian).
There are three methods to install proxychains4
on Debian 10. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install proxychains4 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install proxychains4
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install proxychains4
Install proxychains4 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install proxychains4
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install proxychains4
Install proxychains4 Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install proxychains4
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install proxychains4
How To Uninstall proxychains4 on Debian 10
To uninstall only the proxychains4
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove proxychains4
Uninstall proxychains4 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall proxychains4
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove proxychains4
Remove proxychains4 Configurations and Data
To remove proxychains4
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge proxychains4
Remove proxychains4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove proxychains4
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge proxychains4
Dependencies
proxychains4 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install proxychains4
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.