How to Install and Uninstall tor Package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Last updated: February 24,2025

1. Install "tor" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install tor on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)


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

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall tor on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Package: tor
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.3.2.10-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Peter Palfrader
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 4205
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 (>= 1.1.0), 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)
Filename: pool/universe/t/tor/tor_0.3.2.10-1_amd64.deb
Size: 1259260
MD5sum: 35b074a07dec40f31313978a0cac4eba
SHA1: f6e7838fd86ece808a9346d128f3b7696d4d8704
SHA256: 5b37ccb419b324f5ca625edd9cb696dd836aec3768c186cf65cdac237eefbbb9
Homepage: https://www.torproject.org/
Description: anonymizing overlay network for TCP
Description-md5: 9106e8e4b3843ebd532ba2b89615a92e