1 Quickstart version for users:
3 0) Download the absolute newest version. No, really.
4 http://freehaven.net/tor/dist/
5 1) tar xvf it, and then cd into the directory.
8 4) make install (as root if necessary)
9 5) tor (if it doesn't work, give it the whole path or fix your path)
10 You don't need to run this as root, and you probably shouldn't.
11 (If you're having problems, try running it with "-l info" to get
13 6) point your browser to socks4 or socks5 proxy at localhost port
14 9050. In mozilla, this is in edit|preferences|advanced|proxies. This
15 allows you to test to make sure tor is installed correctly.
16 (If you have a personal firewall, be sure to allow local connections
18 (If your firewall blocks outgoing connections, punch a hole so it
19 can connect to TCP *:9001-9004 and *:9031-9033)
20 (If you're using Safari as your browser, keep in mind that OS X before
21 10.3 claims to support socks but does not. You must do step 8.)
22 7) make sure you've set it up correctly: go to
23 http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy and see what IP it says
24 you're coming from. If it works, you should probably go on to step 8,
25 to get better privacy.
27 8) Optionally, install privoxy (www.privoxy.org), and add the line
28 "forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 ." (without the quotes -- don't forget
29 the dot) to its config file. Then change your mozilla to http proxy
30 at localhost port 8118 (and no socks proxy). You should also set your
31 SSL proxy to the same thing, to hide your https traffic. Using privoxy
32 will give you good html scrubbing as well.
33 (See doc/CLIENTS for why direct socks gives you less anonymity.)
35 *****If this works for you, you can stop reading here******
37 If you got the source from cvs:
39 Run "./autogen.sh", which will run the various auto* programs and then
40 run ./configure for you. From there, start at step 3 in the quickstart
43 If the quickstart doesn't work for you:
45 If you have problems finding libraries, try
46 CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" \
48 rather than simply ./configure.
50 Check out the list archives at http://archives.seul.org/or/dev/ and see
51 if somebody else has reported your problem. If not, please subscribe
52 and let us know what you did to fix it, or give us the details and
53 we'll see what we can do.