microsocks command not found

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

Introduction

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

microsocks: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: microsocks: command not found

Solutions to microsocks: command not found

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

In Ubuntu microsocks is provided by microsocks package.

microsocks is:

MicroSocks - multithreaded, small, efficient SOCKS5 server, is a SOCKS5 service that you can run on your remote boxes to tunnel connections through them, if for some reason SSH doesn’t cut it for you.

  • It’s very lightweight, and very light on resources too.
  • It’s also designed to be robust: it handles resource exhaustion gracefully by simply denying new connections, instead of calling abort() as most other programs do these days.
  • Another plus is ease-of-use: no config file necessary, everything can be done from the command line and doesn’t even need any parameters for quick setup.

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

sudo apt-get -y install microsocks

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

You can also use apt command to install microsocks.

sudo apt -y install microsocks

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

sudo aptitude install microsocks

Summary

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