How To Install redsocks on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install redsocks on Kali Linux. redsocks is arbitrary TCP connection redirector to a SOCKS or HTTPS proxy server

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install redsocks on Kali Linux.

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 Kali Linux. 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 on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. 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 Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove redsocks

Remove redsocks Configurations and Data

To remove redsocks configuration and data from Kali Linux 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 Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.