Squid on CentOS
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Pre-Built Binary Packages
Squid bundles with CentOS. However there is apparently no publicly available information about where to find the packages or who is bundling them. EPEL, DAG and RPMforge repositories appear to no longer contain any files. Other sources imply that CentOS is an alias for RHEL (we know otherwise). Although, yes, the RHEL packages should work on CentOS.
Maintainer: unknown
Bug Reporting: http://bugs.centos.org/search.php?category=squid&sortby=last_updated&hide_status_id=-2
Eliezer: 25/Apr/2017 - I have tested CentOS 7 RPMs for squid 3.5.25 on a small scale and it seems to be stable enough for 200-300 users as a forward proxy and basic features.
Stable Repository Package (like epel-release)
To install run the command:
yum install http://ngtech.co.il/repo/centos/7/squid-repo-1-1.el7.centos.noarch.rpm -y
or
rpm -i http://ngtech.co.il/repo/centos/7/squid-repo-1-1.el7.centos.noarch.rpm
and then install squid using the command:
yum install squid
Squid Beta release
Maintainer: Unofficial packages built by Eliezer Croitoru which can be used on CentOS 7.
Current Beta: 4.0.21-1 based on the latest release.
The RPMs was separated into three files:
- squid-VERSION.rpm
- squid-helpers-VERSION.rpm
- squid-debuginfo-VERSION.rpm
The core squid rpm will provide the basic squid forward, intercept and tproxy modes while also allowing ssl-bump. The helpers package contains all sorts of other helpers which are bundled with squid sources but are not essential for a basic and simple proxy.
- pinger is now disabled by default to allow a smooth startup on selinux enabled system.
src rpm files are at: http://www1.ngtech.co.il/repo/centos/7/beta/SRPMS/
binary RPMs can be found in the architecture specific folders at http://www1.ngtech.co.il/repo/centos/7/beta/x86_64/
[squid] name=Squid repo for CentOS Linux - 7 #IL mirror baseurl=http://www1.ngtech.co.il/repo/centos/$releasever/beta/$basearch/ failovermethod=priority enabled=1 gpgcheck=0
Install Procedure:
yum update yum install squid
Squid-3.5
Maintainer: Unofficial packages built by Eliezer Croitoru which can be used on CentOS 6 and 7
Current: 3.5.25-1 based on the latest release.
The RPMs was separated into three files:
- squid-VERSION.rpm
- squid-helpers-VERSION.rpm
- squid-debuginfo-VERSION.rpm
The core squid rpm will provide the basic squid forward, intercept and tproxy modes while also allowing ssl-bump. The helpers package contains all sorts of other helpers which are bundled with squid sources but are not essential for a basic and simple proxy.
- Since 3.5.7-2 I disabled pinger by default to allow a smooth startup on selinux enabled system.
src rpm files are at: http://www1.ngtech.co.il/repo/centos/$releasever/SRPMS/
binary RPMs can be found in the architecture specific folders at http://www1.ngtech.co.il/repo/centos/$releasever/
[squid] name=Squid repo for CentOS Linux - $basearch #IL mirror baseurl=http://www1.ngtech.co.il/repo/centos/$releasever/$basearch/ failovermethod=priority enabled=1 gpgcheck=0
Install Procedure:
yum update yum install squid
Squid-3.4
Maintainer: Unofficial packages built by Eliezer Croitoru which can be used on CentOS 6
Eliezer: As of 3.4.0.2 I am releasing the squid RPMs for two CPU classes OS, i686 and x86_64.
- Since somewhere in the 3.4 tree there was a change in the way the squid was packaged by me:
The RPMs was separated into three files:
- squid-VERSION.rpm
- squid-helpers-VERSION.rpm
- squid-debuginfo-VERSION.rpm
The core squid rpm will provides the basic squid forward, intercept and tproxy modes while also allowing ssl-bump. The helpers package contains all sorts of other helpers which are bundled with squid sources but are not essential for a basic and simple proxy.
There are couple issues that needs to be fixed since there was some data loss in the transition from my old server to another.
- The init.d script, I am have been working on it in my spare time.
src rpm files are at: http://www1.ngtech.co.il/repo/centos/6/SRPMS/
[squid] name=Squid repo for CentOS Linux 6 - $basearch #IL mirror baseurl=http://www1.ngtech.co.il/repo/centos/6/$basearch failovermethod=priority enabled=1 gpgcheck=0
Install Procedure:
yum update yum install squid
Squid-3.3
- Official package bundled with CentOS 7
Install Procedure:
yum update yum install squid
Maintainer: Unofficial packages built by Eliezer Croitoru which can be used on CentOS 6
[squid] name=Squid repo for CentOS Linux 6 - $basearch #IL mirror baseurl=http://www1.ngtech.co.il/repo/centos/6/$basearch failovermethod=priority enabled=1 gpgcheck=0
Eliezer: a nice build from a friend that is hosted on SUSE servers.
at: http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Aairties%3Aserver&package=squid3
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:airties:server/CentOS_CentOS-6/home:airties:server.repo yum install squid3
Squid-3.1
- Official package bundled with CentOS 6.6
Install Procedure:
yum update yum install squid
Potentially missing OS resources (libs\software)
There are couple dependencies that CentOS might need but cannot be installed by "yum install" yet..
One of the dependencies I have seen are:
"Crypt::X509" which is a perl module that is not in the basic repos of centos.
In order to install it use cpan or EPEL repositories.
# cpan > install Crypt::X509
troubleshooting SSL: first install the libs then see what happens.
Compiling
# You will need the usual build chain yum install -y perl gcc autoconf automake make sudo wget # and some extra packages yum install libxml2-devel libcap-devel # to bootstrap and build from bzr needs also the packages yum install libtool-ltdl-devel
The following ./configure options install Squid into the CentOS structure properly:
--prefix=/usr --includedir=/usr/include --datadir=/usr/share --bindir=/usr/sbin --libexecdir=/usr/lib/squid --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc/squid