socksify command not found

Introduction

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

socksify: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: socksify: command not found

Solutions to socksify: command not found

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

In Ubuntu socksify is provided by dante-client package.

dante-client is:

Dante is a circuit-level firewall/proxy that can be used to provide convenient and secure network connectivity to a wide range of hosts while requiring only the server Dante runs on to have external network connectivity.

This package provides the “socksify” client program - a tool which forwards network requests from any program to a SOCKS server (v4 or v5) which then performs them on your behalf.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dante-client

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

You can also use apt command to install dante-client.

sudo apt -y install dante-client

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

sudo aptitude install dante-client

Summary

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