How To Install gsocket on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gsocket on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is gsocket
gsocket is:
Abandon the thought of IP Addresses and Port Numbers. Instead start thinking that two programs should be able to communicate with each other as long as they know the same secret (rather than each other’s IP Address and Port Number). The Global Socket library facilitates this: It locally derives temporary session keys and IDs and connects two programs through the Global Socket Relay Network (GSRN) regardless and independent of the local IP Address or geographical location.
Once connected the library then negotiates a secure TLS connection(End-2-End). The secret never leaves your workstation. The GSRN sees only the encrypted traffic.
The GSRN is a free cloud service and is free to use by anyone.
The Global Socket Toolkit comes with a set of tools:
gsocket - Makes an existing program (behind firewall or NAT) accessible from anywhere in the world. It does so by analyzing the program and replacing the IP-Layer with its own Gsocket-Layer. A client connection to a hostname ending in ‘*.gsocket’ then gets automatically redirected (via the GSRN) to this program.
gs-netcat - Netcat on steroids. Turn gs-netcat into an AES-256 encrypted reverse backdoor via TOR (optional) with a true PTY/interactive command shell (gs-netcat -s MySecret -i), integrated file-transfer, spawn a Socks4/4a/5 proxy or forward TCP connections or give somebody temporary shell access.
gs-sftp - sftp server & client between two firewalled workstations. gs-mount - Access and mount a remote file system. blitz - Copy data from workstation to workstation.
There are three methods to install gsocket 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 gsocket Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gsocket using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gsocket
Install gsocket Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gsocket using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gsocket
Install gsocket 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 gsocket using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gsocket
How To Uninstall gsocket on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the gsocket package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gsocket
Uninstall gsocket And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gsocket and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gsocket
Remove gsocket Configurations and Data
To remove gsocket configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gsocket
Remove gsocket configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gsocket configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gsocket
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gsocket package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
