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Whether you're managing a business network or looking to increase your personal online security and privacy, setting up a proxy server can be a valuable solution. Squid is a powerful caching proxy server that supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It's widely used for speeding up web requests, caching web, DNS, and other computer network lookups, as well as for controlling access to internet resources. In this tutorial, we're going to guide you through the process of setting up Squid on a Linux system, covering the installation and basic configuration across three major package managers: APT (for Debian-based distributions), DNF (for Fedora and RHEL-based systems), and Zypper (for openSUSE).