tinyproxy command not found

Introduction

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

tinyproxy: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tinyproxy: command not found

Solutions to tinyproxy: command not found

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

In Ubuntu tinyproxy is provided by tinyproxy-bin package.

tinyproxy-bin is:

An anonymizing HTTP proxy which is very light on system resources, ideal for smaller networks and similar situations where other proxies (such as Squid) may be overkill and/or a security risk. Tinyproxy can also be configured to anonymize HTTP requests (allowing for exceptions on a per-header basis).

This package contains the minimal set of files required for running the tinyproxy executable.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tinyproxy-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install tinyproxy-bin.

sudo apt -y install tinyproxy-bin

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

sudo aptitude install tinyproxy-bin

Summary

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