I am new to python and would like to install SocksIPy on Ubuntu (running within a VirtualBox vm). The README says to place the socks.py file into m         
        
The simplest way to install it - provided the VM has working Internect connectivity - would likely be to let apt-get do it for you. From a terminal:
sudo apt-get install python-socksipy
It's in the universe repository, which should be enabled by default. If not, you can enable it yourself.
PySocks is yet another SocksiPy fork:
$ pip install PySocks
It works on Python 2/3.
For Python3
$ sudo apt-get install python3-socks