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Installing Squid by Compiling the Source Code

  1. Obtain the Squid source code and upload it to the /home directory on the server.

    If the server can access the Internet, you can run the wget command on the server to download the source code.

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    cd /home
wget https://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/squid-4.8.tar.gz --no-check-certificate
  2. Decompress the source code package.
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    tar -zxvf squid-4.8.tar.gz

  3. Configure Squid.
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    cd /home/squid-4.8/
./configure

    Squid is installed in /usr/local/squid by default. If you want to install Squid in another directory, use the --prefix option. Example:

    ./configure --prefix=/${PATH_TO_SQUID}

  4. Compile and install Squid.
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    make -j60 && make install
Parent topic: Installing Squid