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title: Install dante on openSUSE using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of dante for on openSUSE - A free SOCKS server
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/dante/opensuse
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# Install dante on **openSUSE**
# dante
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#### A free SOCKS server
Dante is a product developed by Inferno Nettverk A/S. It consists of a SOCKS server, implementing RFC 1928 and related standards. It is a flexible product that can be used to provide convenient and secure network connectivity.
Once installed, Dante can in most cases be made transparent to clients, providing functionality somewhat similar to what could be described as a non-transparent Layer 4 router. For customers interested in controlling and monitoring access in or out of their network, the Dante SOCKS server can provide several benefits, including security and TCP/IP termination (no direct contact between hosts inside and outside of the customer network), resource control (bandwidth, sessions), and logging (host information, data transferred).
The Dante SOCKS server interoperates with many popular network applications which already have SOCKS support built in to them, such as most web-browsers, instant messaging programs, Bloomberg terminals, and many others.
Dante is used daily by Fortune 100 companies and large international organizations, both as a standard (forward) proxy server and as a reverse proxy server.
Configuration and setup of Dante is described in the configuration pages.
Snap configuration is placed here:
`/var/snap/dante/common/etc/sockd.conf`
Several commercial modules are available for the Dante server. For more information see the module page.
Source:
Developed by Inferno Nettverk A/S, Dante is released under a BSD/CMU-type license and comes with complete source code.
This is an unofficial snap of dante built with ♥️ from the upstream release file at . The yaml which built the snap can be found at
### Package name
* dante
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### License
* GPL-2.0+
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### Last updated
* 6 November 2022 - latest/edge
This snap hasn't been updated in a while. It might be unmaintained and have stability or security issues.
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### Contact
* [github.com/capruro/dante-snap/issues](https://github.com/capruro/dante-snap/issues "https://github.com/capruro/dante-snap/issues")
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## Enable snaps on openSUSE and install dante
Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions.
### Enable snapd
Snap can be installed from the command line on openSUSE Leap 15.x and Tumbleweed.
You need first add the *snappy* repository from the terminal. Choose the appropriate command depending on your installed openSUSE flavor.
Tumbleweed:
```
sudo zypper addrepo --refresh https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/system:/snappy/openSUSE_Tumbleweed snappy
```
Leap 15.x:
```
sudo zypper addrepo --refresh https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/system:/snappy/openSUSE_Leap_15.6 snappy
```
If needed, Swap out `openSUSE_Leap_15.` for, `openSUSE_Leap_16.0` if you’re using a different version of openSUSE.
With the repository added, import its GPG key:
```
sudo zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys refresh
```
Finally, upgrade the package cache to include the new *snappy* repository:
```
sudo zypper dup --from snappy
```
Snap can now be installed with the following:
```
sudo zypper install snapd
```
You then need to either reboot, logout/login or `source /etc/profile` to have /snap/bin added to PATH.
Additionally, enable and start both the *snapd* and the *snapd.apparmor* services with the following commands:
```
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.apparmor
```
### Install dante
To install dante, simply use the following command:
```
sudo snap install dante --edge
```
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