I've just returned to boarding school and the school network blocks everything. I cannot install anything with sudo apt-get install.

Does anyone know what can I do?

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Are you sure that they block everything?

If you have root access on the computer, and already installed eg. netcat or any similar tool (and of course some cleverness), you can try to find a way to proxy your traffic.

The most common case is to simulate DNS traffic (UDP port 53), as it is often left unblocked:

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