How to Install and Uninstall libproxychains4 Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: February 23,2025

1. Install "libproxychains4" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install libproxychains4 on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libproxychains4
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libproxychains4" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall libproxychains4 on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libproxychains4
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libproxychains4 package on Kali Linux

Package: libproxychains4
Source: proxychains-ng
Version: 4.17-1
Installed-Size: 62
Maintainer: Boyuan Yang
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
Size: 22504
SHA256: a809f42531d3c6e8af008b42fb092e0e041a093e1b3fd49b4d42ec2433a32946
SHA1: b35495548d7c3ddbcecbeacea1cb0f5bdcb6fcd5
MD5sum: c90ffaed938345386e5e59b6fdd56cab
Description: runtime shared library for proxychains-ng
Proxychains is a UNIX program, that hooks network-related libc functions
in dynamically linked programs via a preloaded DLL (dlsym(), LD_PRELOAD)
and redirects the connections through SOCKS4a/5 or HTTP proxies.
It supports TCP only (no UDP/ICMP etc).
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This project, proxychains-ng, is the continuation of the unmaintained
proxychains project (known as proxychains package in Debian).
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This package provides the runtime shared library used by proxychains-ng
program.
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://github.com/rofl0r/proxychains-ng
Tag: role::shared-lib
Section: libs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/proxychains-ng/libproxychains4_4.17-1_amd64.deb