Installing SOCKS5

In this section, we will go through the steps of downloading and building SOCKS5.

Getting SOCKS5

Go to the SOCKS Proxy Protocol homepage and follow the Download socks5 link. After you fill out some information (ie. name, email address), it will send the file socks5-v1.0r8.tgz (or whatever the latest version is).

I like to keep my source tarballs in /usr/local/src/tar, so let's assume that's where you have it too :)

Building SOCKS5

First, we have to extract the files:

cd /usr/local/src
tar -zxf tar/socks5-v1.0r8.tgz

This will create a directory like /usr/local/src/socks5-v1.0r8 and in it are all the source files. At this point, you should read the INSTALL and README files in there.

Okay that was quick read, let's start building it:

cd /usr/local/src/socks5-v1.0r8
./configure --with-threads
make
make install > ~/socks5.log

Okay that if you saw no errors you've got it built and installed. Notice I piped the output of the make install to ~/socks5.log, you can look in this file to see what it did, you can ignore all the lines that start with [make].

I'm not sure why but they put these rping, rtraceroute, rftp, ... programs into /usr/local/bin, but anyhoo, we've got it installed!!

Next Section

In the next section, we will configure SOCKS5 and start it up.

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