How To Install tsocks on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tsocks on Kali Linux.

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 Kali Linux. 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 on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. 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 Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tsocks

Remove tsocks Configurations and Data

To remove tsocks configuration and data from Kali Linux 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

Dependencies

tsocks have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• tsocks website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tsocks package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.