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- <h1>Running the <a href="http://tor.eff.org/">Tor</a> client on Linux/BSD/Unix</h1>
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- <p>
- <b>Note that these are the installation instructions for running a Tor
- client. If you want to relay traffic for others to help the network grow
- (please do), read the <a
- href="tor-doc-server.html">Configuring a server</a> guide.</b>
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- <a id="installing"></a>
- <h2><a class="anchor" href="#installing">Step One: Download and Install Tor</a></h2>
- <br />
- <p>
- The latest release of Tor can be found on the <a
- href="/download.html">download</a> page. We have packages for Debian,
- Red Hat, Gentoo, *BSD, etc there too.
- </p>
- <p>If you're building from source, first install <a
- href="http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/">libevent</a>, and
- make sure you have openssl and zlib (including the -devel packages if
- applicable). Then Run <tt>tar xzf tor-0.1.0.15.tar.gz;
- cd tor-0.1.0.15</tt>. Then <tt>./configure && make</tt>. Now you
- can run tor as <tt>src/or/tor</tt>, or you can run <tt>make install</tt>
- (as root if necessary) to install it into /usr/local/, and then you can
- start it just by running <tt>tor</tt>.
- </p>
- <p>Tor comes configured as a client by default. It uses a built-in
- default configuration file, and most people won't need to change any of
- the settings. Tor is now installed.
- </p>
- <hr />
- <a id="privoxy"></a>
- <h2><a class="anchor" href="#privoxy">Step Two: Install Privoxy for Web Browsing</a></h2>
- <br />
- <p>After installing Tor, you need to configure your applications to use it.
- </p>
- <p>
- The first step is to set up web browsing. Start by installing <a
- href="http://www.privoxy.org/">Privoxy</a>: click on 'recent releases'
- and pick your favorite package or install from source. Privoxy is a
- filtering web proxy that integrates well with Tor.
- </p>
- <p>You need to configure Privoxy to use Tor.
- Open Privoxy's "config" file (look in /etc/privoxy/ or /usr/local/etc/)
- and add the line <br>
- <tt>forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .</tt><br>
- to the top of the config file. Don't forget to add the dot at the end.
- </p>
- <p>Privoxy keeps a log file of everything passed through it. In
- order to stop this you will need to comment out two lines by inserting a
- # before the line. The two lines are:<br>
- <tt>logfile logfile</tt><br>
- and the line <br>
- <tt>jarfile jarfile</tt><br>
- </p>
- <p>You'll need to restart Privoxy for the changes to take effect.</p>
- <hr />
- <a id="using"></a>
- <h2><a class="anchor" href="#using">Step Three: Configure your applications to use Tor</a></h2>
- <br />
- <p>After installing Tor and Privoxy, you need to configure your
- applications to use them. The first step is to set up web browsing.</p>
- <p>If you're using Firefox (we recommend it), check out our <a
- href="tor-switchproxy.html">Tor SwitchProxy howto</a> to set up
- a plugin that makes it easy to switch between using Tor and using a
- direct connection.</p>
- <p>Otherwise, you need to manually configure your browser to HTTP proxy
- at localhost port 8118.
- (That's where Privoxy listens.)
- In Mozilla, this is in Edit|Preferences|Advanced|Proxies.
- In Opera 7.5x it's Tools|Preferences|Network|Proxy servers.
- You should click the "use the same proxy server for all protocols"
- button; but see <a
- href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#FtpProxy">this
- note</a> about Tor and ftp proxies.
- <p>Using privoxy is <strong>necessary</strong> because <a
- href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#SOCKSAndDNS">browsers
- leak your DNS requests when they use a SOCKS proxy directly</a>, which
- is bad for your anonymity. Privoxy also removes certain dangerous
- headers from your web requests, and blocks obnoxious ad sites like
- Doubleclick.</p>
- <p>To Torify other applications that support HTTP proxies, just
- point them at Privoxy (that is, localhost port 8118). To use SOCKS
- directly (for instant messaging, Jabber, IRC, etc), you can point
- your application directly at Tor (localhost port 9050), but see <a
- href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#SOCKSAndDNS">this
- FAQ entry</a> for why this may be dangerous. For applications
- that support neither SOCKS nor HTTP, take a look at <a
- href="http://tsocks.sourceforge.net/">tsocks</a> or <a
- href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorifyHOWTO#socat">socat</a>.
- </p>
- <p>For information on how to Torify other applications, check out the
- <a href="http://wiki.noreply.org/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorifyHOWTO">Torify
- HOWTO</a>.
- </p>
- <hr />
- <a id="verify"></a>
- <h2><a class="anchor" href="#verify">Step Four: Make sure it's working</a></h2>
- <br />
- <p>
- <a href="http://ipid.shat.net">ipid.shat.net</a> and
- <a href="http://www.showmyip.com/">showmyip.com</a>
- are sites that show what IP address and country you appear to be coming
- from.
- </p>
- <p>If you don't know your current public IP address, this may not be a
- very useful test. To learn your IP address, run "<tt>ifconfig</tt>".
- If you are behind a NAT or firewall, though, you won't be able
- to learn your public IP address. In this case, you should 1) configure
- your browser to connect directly (that is, stop using Privoxy), 2) check
- your IP address with one of the sites above, 3) point your browser back
- to Privoxy, and 4) see whether your IP address has changed.
- </p>
- <p>If you have a personal firewall that limits your computer's
- ability to connect to itself (this includes something like SELinux on
- Fedora Core 4), be sure to allow connections from
- your local applications to Privoxy (local port 8118) and Tor (local port
- 9050). If
- your firewall blocks outgoing connections, punch a hole so
- it can connect to at least TCP ports 80 and 443, and then see <a
- href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#FirewalledClient">this
- FAQ entry</a>. If your SELinux config is not allowing tor or privoxy to
- run correctly, create a file named booleans.local in the directory
- /etc/selinux/targeted. Edit this file in your favorite text editor and
- insert "allow_ypbind=1". Restart your machine for this change to take
- effect.
- </p>
- <p>If it's still not working, look at <a
- href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#ItDoesntWork">this
- FAQ entry</a> for hints.</p>
- <hr />
- <a id="server"></a>
- <h2><a class="anchor" href="#server">Step Five: Configure it as a server</a></h2>
- <br />
- <p>The Tor network relies on volunteers to donate bandwidth. The more
- people who run servers, the faster the Tor network will be. If you have
- at least 20 kilobytes/s each way, please help out Tor by configuring your
- Tor to be a server too. We have many features that make Tor servers easy
- and convenient, including rate limiting for bandwidth, exit policies so
- you can limit your exposure to abuse complaints, and support for dynamic
- IP addresses.</p>
- <p>Having servers in many different places on the Internet is what
- makes Tor users secure. You may also get stronger anonymity yourself,
- since remote sites can't know whether connections originated at your
- computer or were relayed from others.</p>
- <p>Read more at our <a href="tor-doc-server.html">Configuring a server</a>
- guide.</p>
- <hr />
- <p>If you have suggestions for improving this document, please post
- them on <a href="http://bugs.noreply.org/tor">our bugtracker</a> in the
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