How to Install and Uninstall tor Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 09,2024

1. Install "tor" package

This guide let you learn how to install tor on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

This guide let you learn how to uninstall tor on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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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 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: tor
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.4.4.5-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Peter Palfrader
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 5077
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.32), libcap2 (>= 1:2.10), libevent-2.1-7 (>= 2.1.8-stable), liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614), libseccomp2 (>= 0.0.0~20120605), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.1), 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_0.4.4.5-1_amd64.deb
Size: 1450692
MD5sum: e4bf0b09716e2dd025bede7f43015b7e
SHA1: 146f02b551753a55e0e83e25ff0352d463865d68
SHA256: 4c04d953f9fb977c4c64daaaf8584525a658c2d6de9fd636a12fd983abf1253b
SHA512: 927ad06871737594d300dcd59d710f210f5043fb6720f6a30571983a03ed3dccc5e03d2a1f05a9a9860d162ba08b5c54d2ad7aa8773164010c46cb09356ce9db
Homepage: https://www.torproject.org/
Description-en: anonymizing overlay network for TCP
Tor is a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system.
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Clients choose a source-routed path through a set of relays, and
negotiate a "virtual circuit" through the network, in which each relay
knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing
down the circuit is decrypted at each relay, which reveals the
downstream relay.
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Basically, Tor provides a distributed network of relays. Users bounce
their TCP streams (web traffic, ftp, ssh, etc) around the relays, and
recipients, observers, and even the relays themselves have difficulty
learning which users connected to which destinations.
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This package enables only a Tor client by default, but it can also be
configured as a relay and/or a hidden service easily.
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Client applications can use the Tor network by connecting to the local
socks proxy interface provided by your Tor instance. If the application
itself does not come with socks support, you can use a socks client
such as torsocks.
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Note that Tor does no protocol cleaning on application traffic. There
is a danger that application protocols and associated programs can be
induced to reveal information about the user. Tor depends on Torbutton
and similar protocol cleaners to solve this problem. For best
protection when web surfing, the Tor Project recommends that you use
the Tor Browser Bundle, a standalone tarball that includes static
builds of Tor, Torbutton, and a modified Firefox that is patched to fix
a variety of privacy bugs.
Description-md5: 9106e8e4b3843ebd532ba2b89615a92e