Installing Squid

You can easily install Squid as usual from the Ubuntu software repositories, where it is called squid3. After Squid is installed, it is automatically enabled for each boot. You can check this by running ps aux | grep squid when the machine boots. If you see nothing there, run sudo start squid.

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