How To Install torsocks on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install torsocks on Rocky Linux 8.
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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install torsocks.
Install torsocks on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install torsocks using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install torsocks
Install torsocks on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install torsocks using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install torsocks
How To Uninstall torsocks on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the torsocks package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove torsocks
torsocks Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/bash_completion.d/torsocks
/etc/tor/torsocks.conf
/usr/bin/torsocks
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/01
/usr/lib/.build-id/01/55a27925062dfba1928b5d7ef4b987424c90f3
/usr/lib64/torsocks
/usr/lib64/torsocks/libtorsocks.so
/usr/lib64/torsocks/libtorsocks.so.0
/usr/lib64/torsocks/libtorsocks.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/torsocks
/usr/share/doc/torsocks/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/torsocks/DEBUG
/usr/share/doc/torsocks/socks-extensions.txt
/usr/share/licenses/torsocks
/usr/share/licenses/torsocks/gpl-2.0.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/torsocks.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/torsocks.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/torsocks.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install torsocks on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.