Hello everyone. I am not a programmer. And I have a request. Can anyone tell me how to install and configure Shadowsocks VPN? I have not found instructions anywhere. If possible in more detail.
This LINK does not help. In our country (Turkmenistan), almost everything is blocked, including other VPNs (as in China). Therefore, I want to configure Shadowsocks
From a quick read of your link, you have to have a Shadowsocks server to connect to. Do you?
But the link has fairly simple instructions for installing the client. What’s not working when you follow the instructions? Have you contacted the author of that tutorial who is probably far more knowledgeable than anyone here may be.
I already have Shadowsocks server. I am using it on my Android and Windows devices.
In the instruction"sudo apt-get install python-pip" works, “sudo pip install shadowsocks” command doesn’t work.
Also I downloaded and install client from this link, I am writing the server IP, password, encryption type. But it does not start
That’s really helpful, ike telling a mechanic: “My car won’t start”
I’d suggest that you contact the author of Shadowsocks for help.
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It works fine.
osmc@osmc:~$ pip install shadowsocks
Collecting shadowsocks
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/02/1e/e3a5135255d06813aca6631da31768d44f63692480af3a1621818008eb4a/shadowsocks-2.8.2.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: shadowsocks
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for shadowsocks ... done
Stored in directory: /home/osmc/.cache/pip/wheels/5e/8d/b6/3e2243a7e116984b2c3597c122c29abcfeac77daa260079e88
Successfully built shadowsocks
Installing collected packages: shadowsocks
Successfully installed shadowsocks-2.8.2
osmc@osmc:~$ pip show shadowsocks
Name: shadowsocks
Version: 2.8.2
Summary: A fast tunnel proxy that help you get through firewalls
Home-page: https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks
Author: clowwindy
Author-email: clowwindy42@gmail.com
License: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Location: /home/osmc/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Requires:
osmc@Altyn:~$ sudo apt-get install python-pip
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
python-pip-whl
Recommended packages:
build-essential python-all-dev python-setuptools python-wheel
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osmc@Altyn:~$ pip install shadowsocks
Collecting shadowsocks
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/02/1e/e3a5135255d06813aca6b4a/shadowsocks-2.8.2.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 1, in
ImportError: No module named setuptools
----------------------------------------
Command “python setup.py egg_info” failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-mU
osmc@Altyn:~$
Looks like you need a few additional packages (see how it helps when you say more than “It doesn’t work” 
):
sudo apt install python-setuptools
pip install wheel
Then you should be able to
pip install shadowsocks
If you plan on running as root, you probably should sudo both pip commands.
EDIT: I just found that shadowsocks is included in the default repositories, so instead of messing with pip and python, just do this:
sudo apt install shadowsocks
and that should do it for you.
Thank you. It’s really helped. Now I can continue to configure Shadowsocks VPN.
Good to hear. So others may be helped, did you just do the apt install shadowsocks, or did you do the more complicated pip method?
So you didn’t try what I suggested? sudo apt install shadowsocks
Oh Sorry. I used sudo apt install shadowsocks. I thought you asked me about the shadowsocks addon
osmc@Altyn:~$ sudo sslocal -c /etc/shadowsocks.json -d start
INFO: loading config from /etc/shadowsocks.json
2020-02-07 10:44:11 INFO loading libcrypto from libcrypto.so.1.1
started
Now Shadowsocks work. But I can’t open blocked websites. I think need to pass all Internet traffic through a VPN. But I don’t know how. Please one more request
You will need to contact Shadowsocks for this. I’ve never used it, and don’t have a server to connect to for testing. And I doubt that anyone else here has any experience with Shadowsocks.
But a question for you, what do you mean by
As there is normally no web browser installed with OSMC.
Hello. I asked. THey cheked and answer: KODI does not support SOCKS 5 proxy type. Therefore, it did not work. After searching the Internet, I came to the conclusion that you need to install polipo to convert the protocol. I will check