How can I force terminal to use Tor on Ubuntu

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I wanted to install a program on terminal but it's blocked. How do I torfiy my terminal to fetch the package over Tor?

It will probably be easier to (try to) torify the tool you're trying to use inside the terminal, rather than the terminal itself. What command are you trying to use for the install? — Richard Horrocks, Commented May 23, 2016 at 16:11

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-13 12:59:11Z

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Assuming you want to do this using apt-get, rather than building from source, you can use torify in the following way:

# torify apt-get update
# torify apt-get install <jdk_packages>

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answered May 23, 2016 at 19:29

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If just the package download process needs to be torified you can try apt-transport-tor, and change http in the sources.list to tor+http.
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mrphs · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-24 19:53:21Z

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You can send any command over Tor with torify or torsocks.

Example:

torsocks wget https://path/to/file

or

torify apt-get update

or

torsocks git clone https://path/to/git

or even ssh, scp or sftp over Tor

torsocks ssh user@host

answered May 24, 2016 at 19:53

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