How do I install Socks / SocksIPy on Ubuntu?

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I am new to python and would like to install SocksIPy on Ubuntu (running within a VirtualBox vm). The README says to place the socks.py file into my lib/site-packages directory. I do not know where to locate this directory. The Terminal command python socks.py install from the root runs, but does not install correctly (error "No module named socks" when I run import socks in a python script)

SocksIPy link http://socksipy.sourceforge.net/

Can someone suggest a way to get socks/socksipy running on my machine? Thanks!

See this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/122327/how-do-i-find-the-location-of-my-python-site-packages-directory it will help you to find site-packages. — cleg, Feb 11 '13 at 20:41

score 19 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:22

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The simplest way to install it - provided the VM has working Internect connectivity - would likely be to let apt-get do it for you. From a terminal:

sudo apt-get install python-socksipy

It's in the universe repository, which should be enabled by default. If not, you can enable it yourself.

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answered Feb 11 '13 at 21:10

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Got it -- had tried this earlier and it broke...I think your syntax was 'more correct' than mine. Thanks! – user1868039 Feb 11 '13 at 22:35
How would I go about doing it with pip? say, if i want to do it only in virtualenv? `pip search socks` shows SocksiPy as an existing package, but pip install SocksiPy fails. – eran Dec 03 '13 at 16:36
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@eran you can try `pip install SocksiPy-branch` – Anshul Apr 23 '14 at 09:34
@Anshul: `SocksiPy-branch` seems broken e.g., [stem tutorial](https://stem.torproject.org/tutorials/to_russia_with_love.html) works with `python-socksipy` but [breaks with `SocksiPy-branch` due to stack overflow in `sendall()`](http://stackoverflow.com/q/28790000/4279). – jfs Mar 01 '15 at 12:05
@J.F.Sebastian, Ohk. Thanks for the update. I don't remember exactly why I used it in first place but worked fine for my limited use case of a prototype back then. – Anshul Mar 02 '15 at 11:09
The solution in the other answer from @J.F.Sebastian works better in a virtualenv – theheadofabroom Jul 11 '16 at 10:26

score 17 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 01 '15 at 13:29

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PySocks is yet another SocksiPy fork:

$ pip install PySocks

It works on Python 2/3.

answered Mar 01 '15 at 13:29

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 15 '17 at 19:13

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For Python3

$ sudo apt-get install python3-socks

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answered Aug 15 '17 at 17:15

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How do I install Socks / SocksIPy on Ubuntu?

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