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Using wget with socks proxy
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# using-wget-with-socks-proxy
# This should work for everything includeing curl, pip, pipenv, etc
# TLDR: Use proxychains (https://github.com/haad/proxychains)
## INSTALL PROXY CHAINS ##
$ sudo apt update -y
$ sudo apt install proxychains
## EDIT PROXYCHAINS CONFIG ##
$ sudo vim /etc/proxychains.conf
>>>>
socks4 127.0.0.1 18888
<<<<
## USE PROXYCHAINS ##
proxychains pip install django
proxychains pipenv install djangorestframework
curl https://www.thething.com/to/be/downloaded.pdf
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Ja7ad commented Dec 4, 2020

Thank you it's useful

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slrslr commented Dec 18, 2021

So this sets proxy for all command line launched apps and i have to disable it then somehow i guess..

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@slrslr No it doesn't, only for command line launched apps prefixed with proxychains, i.e >proxychains your_command_here.

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