How To Install redsocks on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install redsocks
on Debian 11.
What is redsocks
redsocks is:
Redsocks is a daemon running on the local system, that will transparently tunnel any TCP connection via a remote SOCKS4, SOCKS5 or HTTP proxy server. It uses the system firewall’s redirection facility to intercept TCP connections, thus the redirection is system-wide, with fine-grained control, and does not depend on LD_PRELOAD libraries.
Redsocks supports tunneling TCP connections and UDP packets. It has authentication support for both, SOCKS and HTTP proxies.
Also included is a small DNS server returning answers with the “truncated” flag set for any UDP query, forcing the resolver to use TCP.
There are three methods to install redsocks
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install redsocks Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install redsocks
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install redsocks
Install redsocks Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install redsocks
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install redsocks
Install redsocks 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 redsocks
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install redsocks
How To Uninstall redsocks on Debian 11
To uninstall only the redsocks
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove redsocks
Uninstall redsocks And Its Dependencies
To uninstall redsocks
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove redsocks
Remove redsocks Configurations and Data
To remove redsocks
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge redsocks
Remove redsocks configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove redsocks
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge redsocks
Dependencies
redsocks have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install redsocks
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.