How To Install shadowsocks-libev on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install shadowsocks-libev
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is shadowsocks-libev
shadowsocks-libev is:
Shadowsocks-libev is a lightweight and secure socks5 proxy for embedded devices and low end boxes.
Shadowsocks-libev was inspired by Shadowsocks (in Python). It’s rewritten in pure C and only depends on libev, mbedTLS and a few other tiny libraries.
There are three methods to install shadowsocks-libev
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install shadowsocks-libev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install shadowsocks-libev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install shadowsocks-libev
Install shadowsocks-libev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install shadowsocks-libev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install shadowsocks-libev
Install shadowsocks-libev 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 shadowsocks-libev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install shadowsocks-libev
How To Uninstall shadowsocks-libev on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the shadowsocks-libev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove shadowsocks-libev
Uninstall shadowsocks-libev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall shadowsocks-libev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove shadowsocks-libev
Remove shadowsocks-libev Configurations and Data
To remove shadowsocks-libev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge shadowsocks-libev
Remove shadowsocks-libev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove shadowsocks-libev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge shadowsocks-libev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install shadowsocks-libev
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.