Installing and running shadowsocks on Ubuntu Server

  1. Install the the shadowsocks-libev package from apt repository. sudo apt update sudo apt install shadowsocks-libev
  2. Save ss.json as /etc/shadowsocks-libev/config.json.
  3. Replace server_port and password in ss.json with your own choices.
  4. Restart the shadowsocks-libev service. sudo systemctl restart shadowsocks-libev sudo systemctl status shadowsocks-libev