How To Install redsocks on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install redsocks on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove redsocks
Remove redsocks Configurations and Data
To remove redsocks configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install redsocks package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
