How To Install tractor on Debian 12

Learn how to install tractor on Debian 12 with this tutorial. tractor is Setup an onion routing proxy

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tractor on Debian 12.

What is `tractor`

tractor is:

This package uses Python stem library to provide a connection through the onion router and set up proxy in user session, so you don’t have to mess up with TOR on your system anymore.

There are three methods to install tractor on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install tractor Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install tractor using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tractor

Install tractor Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tractor using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tractor

Install tractor 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install tractor using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tractor

How To Uninstall tractor on Debian 12

To uninstall only the tractor package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tractor

Uninstall tractor And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tractor and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tractor

Remove tractor Configurations and Data

To remove tractor configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tractor

Remove tractor configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tractor configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tractor

Dependencies

tractor have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tractor package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.