How To Install tsocks on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tsocks
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is tsocks
tsocks is:
tsocks provides transparent network access through a SOCKS version 4 or 5 proxy (usually on a firewall). tsocks intercepts the calls applications make to establish TCP connections and transparently proxies them as necessary. This allows existing applications to use SOCKS without recompilation or modification.
There are three methods to install tsocks
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install tsocks Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tsocks
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tsocks
Install tsocks Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tsocks
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tsocks
Install tsocks 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 tsocks
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tsocks
How To Uninstall tsocks on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the tsocks
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tsocks
Uninstall tsocks And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tsocks
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tsocks
Remove tsocks Configurations and Data
To remove tsocks
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tsocks
Remove tsocks configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tsocks
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tsocks
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tsocks
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.