How To Install proxytunnel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install proxytunnel on Rocky Linux 8. proxytunnel is Tool to tunnel a connection through an standard HTTP(S) proxy

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install proxytunnel on Rocky Linux 8.

What is proxytunnel

ProxyTunnel is a program that connects stdin and stdout to a server somewhere on the network, through a standard HTTPS proxy. We mostly use it to tunnel SSH sessions through HTTP(S) proxies. Proxytunnel can currently do the following * Create tunnels using HTTP and HTTPS proxies (That understand the HTTP CONNECT command). * Work as a back-end driver for an OpenSSH client, and create SSH connections through HTTP(S) proxies. * Work as a stand-alone application, listening on a port for connections, and then tunneling these connections to a specified destination.

We can use yum or dnf to install proxytunnel on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install proxytunnel.

Install proxytunnel 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 proxytunnel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install proxytunnel

Install proxytunnel 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 proxytunnel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install proxytunnel

How To Uninstall proxytunnel on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the proxytunnel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove proxytunnel

proxytunnel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/proxytunnel
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/41
/usr/lib/.build-id/41/5beba187e6e30f382750bccf3195180f8b6aed
/usr/share/doc/proxytunnel
/usr/share/doc/proxytunnel/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/proxytunnel/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/proxytunnel/KNOWN_ISSUES
/usr/share/doc/proxytunnel/README.md
/usr/share/doc/proxytunnel/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/proxytunnel
/usr/share/licenses/proxytunnel/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/proxytunnel.1.gz

References

Summary

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