SocksBin is a cross-platform and lightweight SOCKS proxy client that can help you bypass internet censorship and protect your online privacy. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps of installing SocksBin on NixOS, a Linux-based operating system that uses the Nix package manager.
Before we begin, please make sure that you have the following prerequisites:
sudo
command)sudo nix-channel --update
git
package, which we will use to clone the SocksBin repository from GitHub:sudo nix-env -i git
git clone https://github.com/magnumdingusedu/socksbin.git
cd
into the socksbin
directory:cd socksbin
nix-build
command:sudo nix-env -i ./result
socksbin
command:socksbin
Congratulations! You have successfully installed SocksBin on NixOS. You can now use SocksBin to connect to a SOCKS server and protect your online privacy.
By default, SocksBin will use the SOCKS5 protocol to connect to a server at localhost:1080
. If you need to change the server or protocol, you can do so by passing the appropriate parameters to the socksbin
command.
For example, to connect to a SOCKS4 server at 127.0.0.1:8080
, you would run the following command:
socksbin -t 4 -s 127.0.0.1:8080
For more information on how to use SocksBin, please refer to the project's official documentation.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install and configure SocksBin on NixOS. By using SocksBin, you can bypass internet censorship and protect your online privacy. If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to leave a comment below.
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