How to Install and Uninstall tor Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 11,2024

1. Install "tor" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install tor on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

Please follow the steps below to uninstall tor on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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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 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: tor
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.4.5.9-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Peter Palfrader
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 5424
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.33), 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 (>= 1.4.0), 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_0.4.5.9-1_amd64.deb
Size: 1604176
MD5sum: 9aa76c4777233f7780ebdb34f15788a2
SHA1: dd58800d5b1266c3519db2ed4995023db2de4414
SHA256: 32e7cdeb987a40c03522e179a957029ff212feb6ea33fdac4d5ea55c077f4183
SHA512: 49bdc279fcc2c2e56af39acffcdbb2c645e9d421df731a62cda1cbd27f282efa0a52832d6d5bfd468a706b730fa8080f8f8bb9b8d249279123d9ac0dcb9bd78c
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