How to Install and Uninstall proxychains Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: November 22,2024

You can also install and uninstall the proxychains on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "proxychains" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install proxychains on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall proxychains on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the proxychains package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: proxychains
Version: 3.1-9
Installed-Size: 27
Maintainer: Daniel Echeverri
Architecture: all
Depends: libproxychains3 (>= 3.1-9)
Description: proxy chains - redirect connections through proxy servers
Description-md5: 040457b770c0fda03ec53238fc3e3cb4
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://proxychains.sourceforge.net
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, network::vpn, role::program,
use::proxying
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/proxychains/proxychains_3.1-9_all.deb
Size: 9140
MD5sum: a41eb851b13aff65efcf22dfae51efca
SHA256: b376599f320b8443740bbdbbabbbe2097e0f25c05bb2539070ec858afdecc88b