proxychains4-daemon command not found

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

Introduction

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

proxychains4-daemon: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: proxychains4-daemon: command not found

Solutions to proxychains4-daemon: command not found

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

In Ubuntu proxychains4-daemon 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-daemon command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.