How to Install and Uninstall proxychains4 Package on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

Last updated: January 09,2025

You can also install and uninstall the proxychains4 on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Ubuntu system

Kubuntu 22.04 LTS
Lubuntu 22.04 LTS
Xubuntu 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS
Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
Zorin OS 16 / Zorin OS 17
Ubuntu Budgie 22.04

1. Install "proxychains4" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install proxychains4 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "proxychains4" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall proxychains4 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the proxychains4 package on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

Package: proxychains4
Architecture: amd64
Version: 4.16-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Source: proxychains-ng
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Boyuan Yang
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 75
Provides: proxychains, proxychains-ng
Depends: libproxychains4 (= 4.16-1), libc6 (>= 2.34)
Breaks: proxychains (<< 3.1-8)
Replaces: proxychains
Filename: pool/universe/p/proxychains-ng/proxychains4_4.16-1_amd64.deb
Size: 18372
MD5sum: 629be4ed536c77f98ae84f420fe31d6c
SHA1: 8f33364f70805af6f10ae2647ed6ac67bcffb053
SHA256: dbe5f06fa968770c56e7d0d3e4bd86de98c43c5cfb8022fddbfbb1a685046b32
SHA512: 2fed251036e8b9b10d4794cdd05facc0e4328e6b5b89e4b8c4f4ed20b53a18bd2f9c4447733eafc25ea1e3fc7e1c37a12eb65f237504edcddda1a1f7d537008c
Homepage: https://github.com/rofl0r/proxychains-ng
Description: redirect connections through socks/http proxies (proxychains-ng)
Description-md5: 248efdc0bee35370891819d61c64dcff