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Ernesto
Ernesto

Reputation: 4017

Using python's easy_install through a SOCKS5 proxy

Well, the title is pretty explanatory by itself. I need to install python stuff using easy_install, but I need easy_install to connect through a SOCKS5 proxy. Any ideas?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1888

Answers (1)

tito
tito

Reputation: 13271

When i need to protect my connection, i'm using tsocks. It act as a transparent layer for network connection. Create a configuration file named tsocks.conf:

server = 127.0.0.1
server_type = 5
server_port = 1080

Then you can use it like this (sudo is needed only for easy_install):

TSOCKS_CONF_FILE=tsocks.conf tsocks sudo easy_install -U docutils

A side note, i'm mostly using ssh with socks proxy feature too (this example will connect to the ssh of myserver.com, and create a local socks proxy server listening on the port 1080):

ssh -D 1080 myserver.com

Upvotes: 3

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