Proxychains and apt-get command.

[hack3rcon]

Hello.
I'm using Debian 8.11 x86_64 and configured proxychains to use Tor SOCKS5 proxy. I want to forward "apt-get update" command via proxychains, but it show me below error:

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$ proxychains sudo apt-get update
ProxyChains-3.1 (http://proxychains.sf.net)
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libproxychains.so.3' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

How can I solve it?

Thank you.

[kopper]

How did you install proxychains?

Your error might indicate that variable LD_PRELOAD doesn't include correct path to libproxychains.so.3, so you might need to locate it and export the variable. This would have been very easy for you to find out with a little searching.

I installed proxychains with apt on Stretch, the file was located in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu. So:

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export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libproxychains.so.3
proxychains <stuff>

On another note, why use Tor proxy for updating your repository list / upgrading your system? Bandwidth is terrible at best, and system upgrade isn't sensitive information in any sense. Unless you're unable to access repositories without proxy, what's the point?

EDIT: The first search result actually had identical command in problem statement that you were trying to run (proxychains apt-get update). Did you even try to look for the solution yourself?