How to Install and Uninstall tor Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: May 11,2024

1. Install "tor" package

Please follow the guidance below to install tor on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                tor
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "tor" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall tor on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                tor
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the tor package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: tor
Version: 0.3.5.16-1
Installed-Size: 5082
Maintainer: Peter Palfrader
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.25), libcap2 (>= 1:2.10), libevent-2.1-6 (>= 2.1.8-stable), liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614), libseccomp2 (>= 0.0.0~20120605), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.1), libsystemd0, libzstd1 (>= 1.3.2), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), adduser, lsb-base
Recommends: logrotate, tor-geoipdb, torsocks
Suggests: mixmaster, torbrowser-launcher, socat, tor-arm, apparmor-utils, obfs4proxy
Conflicts: libssl0.9.8 (<< 0.9.8g-9)
Description: anonymizing overlay network for TCP
Description-md5: 9106e8e4b3843ebd532ba2b89615a92e
Homepage: https://www.torproject.org/
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::daemon, network::client, network::routing,
network::server, role::program, security::cryptography,
security::privacy, use::proxying, use::routing
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/t/tor/tor_0.3.5.16-1_amd64.deb
Size: 1807900
MD5sum: d390b3c96fd6dbb40452e865405b7025
SHA256: 468733b54b952e9f9edda29f5313940a29585dfb65fe3d0499e6d062b439d4e6