How to Install and Uninstall proxychains4 Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: January 11,2025

You can also install and uninstall the proxychains4 on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "proxychains4" package

Learn how to install proxychains4 on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "proxychains4" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall proxychains4 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 proxychains4 package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: proxychains4
Source: proxychains-ng
Version: 4.16-2
Installed-Size: 67
Maintainer: Boyuan Yang
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: proxychains
Provides: proxychains, proxychains-ng
Depends: libproxychains4 (= 4.16-2), libc6 (>= 2.14)
Breaks: proxychains (<< 3.1-8)
Description: redirect connections through socks/http proxies (proxychains-ng)
Description-md5: 248efdc0bee35370891819d61c64dcff
Homepage: https://github.com/rofl0r/proxychains-ng
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/proxychains-ng/proxychains4_4.16-2_amd64.deb
Size: 20444
MD5sum: 6393fd0cf27baab8dbb32716b59c4b0b
SHA256: 160bdfb3de3128383c10fe89d62bb2f72195304725549355ca0831d9c3651c2c