proxychains4 command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix proxychains4 command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

proxychains4: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: proxychains4: command not found

Solutions to proxychains4: command not found

How To Fix proxychains4: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu proxychains4 is provided by proxychains4 package.

proxychains4 is:

Proxychains is a UNIX program, that hooks network-related libc functions in dynamically linked programs via a preloaded DLL (dlsym(), LD_PRELOAD) and redirects the connections through SOCKS4a/5 or HTTP proxies. It supports TCP only (no UDP/ICMP etc).

This project, proxychains-ng, is the continuation of the unmaintained proxychains project (known as proxychains package in Debian).

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install proxychains4

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install proxychains4.

sudo apt -y install proxychains4

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install proxychains4

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix proxychains4 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.