[squid-users] Squid as a http/https transparent web proxy in 2024.... do I still have to build from source?

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 11.04.24 09:55, PinPin Poola wrote:
> I have put this off for a while, as I find everything about squid very 
> intimidating.  The fact you still use an email mailing list and not a web 
> forum site amazes & scares me in equal part.

> I am probably using the wrong terminology here, but I now desperately need 
> to build a http/https transparent web proxy with two interfaces, so that 
> clients on a isolated/non-Internet routable subnet can download some large 
> (25GB+) packages.

> I don't care which Linux distro tbh; but would prefer Ubuntu as I have most 
> familiarity with it.

> I have watched a few old YouTube videos of people explaining that at the 
> time to do this you had to build from source and add switches like 
> "--enable-ssl --enable-ssl-crtd --with-openssl \" before compiling the 
> code.

> Is this still that case that I cannot download and use a pre-compiled 
> binary from your site?

Ubuntu includes squid packages, and provides security support for them.
It's rarely needed to rebuild packages on your own, you should not need it.

I prefer Debian which is similat to ubuntu and it comes with certgen, so it 
might wor for you.

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