Installing SOCKS5 with RPM

Use the rpm command with the -q (or --query) option to see if SOCKS5 is already installed on your system:

socks5-1.0r08-1

If SOCKS5 is already installed, but you would like to upgrade the installed package to a more recent version, use the -U (or - -upgrade) with the new version of the package:

[ramon]$ sudo rpm -U socks5-1.0r11-1.i386.rpm [ramon]$ rpm -q socks5

socks5-1.0r11-1

In addition to the base server package (SOCKS5), I recommend that you also install three additional RPM packages:

■ The SOCKS5 Linux clients (socks5-c1ients)

■ The SOCKS5 share library wrapper (runsocks)

■ The SOCKS5 development environment (socks5-devel)

Use the following commands to install these three packages:

[ramon]$ sudo rpm -i socks5-clients-1.0r11-1.i386.rpm [ramon]$ sudo rpm -i runsocks-1.0r11-1.i386.rpm [ramon]$ sudo rpm -i socks5-devel-1.0r11-1.i386.rpm

The SOCKS5 RPM modules depend on both the libc.so.X and the libpthread.so.X libraries, so make sure that your glibc package (where both libraries reside) is up-to-date.

PART 4

If you prefer to compile the SOCKS5 software yourself, the next section describes how to configure and compile SOCKS5 from the source distribution.

Continue reading here: The runsocks Script

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