How To Install torsocks on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install torsocks
on CentOS 7.
What is torsocks
Torsocks allows you to use most SOCKS-friendly applications in a safe way with Tor. It ensures that DNS requests are handled safely and explicitly rejects UDP traffic from the application you’re using.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install torsocks
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install torsocks.
Install torsocks on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install torsocks
using yum
by running the following command:
Install torsocks on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install torsocks
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall torsocks on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the torsocks
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install torsocks
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.