How to Install and Uninstall proxychains4 Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: December 25,2024

1. Install "proxychains4" package

Learn how to install proxychains4 on Kali Linux


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall proxychains4 on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                proxychains4
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the proxychains4 package on Kali Linux

Package: proxychains4
Source: proxychains-ng
Version: 4.17-1
Installed-Size: 66
Maintainer: Boyuan Yang
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: proxychains
Provides: proxychains, proxychains-ng
Depends: libproxychains4 (= 4.17-1), libc6 (>= 2.34)
Breaks: proxychains (<< 3.1-8)
Size: 20160
SHA256: 5b39b8709aa4522895ac5202fd37daddd570922998b65807a7259d0271969aef
SHA1: 1f34bebf6de9f80cdb08ba020ce1ddb98ace87f2
MD5sum: 68644f609c69939c9c8f6e5f159e17a8
Description: redirect connections through socks/http proxies (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).
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://github.com/rofl0r/proxychains-ng
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/proxychains-ng/proxychains4_4.17-1_amd64.deb