How To Install dante-client on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dante-client
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is dante-client
dante-client is:
Dante is a circuit-level firewall/proxy that can be used to provide convenient and secure network connectivity to a wide range of hosts while requiring only the server Dante runs on to have external network connectivity.
This package provides the “socksify” client program - a tool which forwards network requests from any program to a SOCKS server (v4 or v5) which then performs them on your behalf.
There are three methods to install dante-client
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 dante-client Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dante-client
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dante-client
Install dante-client Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dante-client
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dante-client
Install dante-client 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 dante-client
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dante-client
How To Uninstall dante-client on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the dante-client
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dante-client
Uninstall dante-client And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dante-client
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dante-client
Remove dante-client Configurations and Data
To remove dante-client
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dante-client
Remove dante-client configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dante-client
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dante-client
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dante-client
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.