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.
6 2) ./configure (or do the two-line version in the README, if you're on bsd)
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 (Once you're comfortable running it, you can run it with "-l warn",
12 which will only log things that you need to know.)
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 connections to
18 (If you're using Safari as your browser, keep in mind that it claims
19 to support socks but does not. You must do step 8.)
20 7) make sure you've set it up correctly: go to
21 http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy and see what IP it says
22 you're coming from. If it works, you should probably go on to step 8,
23 to get better privacy.
25 8) Optionally, install privoxy (www.privoxy.org), and add the line
26 "forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 ." (without the quotes -- don't forget
27 the dot) to its config file. Then change your mozilla to http proxy
28 at localhost port 8118 (and no socks proxy). This step will give you
29 good html scrubbing as well.
30 (See doc/CLIENTS for why direct socks gives you less anonymity.)
32 *****If this works for you, you can stop reading here******
34 If you got the source from cvs:
36 Run "./autogen.sh", which will run the various auto* programs and then
37 run ./configure for you. From there, start at step 3 in the quickstart
40 If the quickstart doesn't work for you:
42 If you have problems finding libraries, try
43 CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" \
45 rather than simply ./configure.
47 Check out the list archives at http://archives.seul.org/or/dev/ and see
48 if somebody else has reported your problem. If not, please subscribe
49 and let us know what you did to fix it, or give us the details and
50 we'll see what we can do.