[Fedora-Bangladesh] Problem while setting up TOR
Junayeed Ahnaf
zombiegenerator at gmail.com
Wed Jun 9 09:34:15 UTC 2010
On Wednesday, June 09, 2010 01:57:08 pm Angel wrote:
> Just follow me,
>
> 1. Remove the Tor repo from /etc/yum.repos.d/ . And clean the metadata, su
> -c 'yum clean metadata' .
>
> 2. Uninstall polipo, su -c 'yum remove polipo' .
>
> 3. Install Tor and privoxy, su -c 'yum install tor privoxy'
>
> 4. Open the Privoxy config file for editing from /etc/privoxy.
>
> su -c 'gedit /etc/privoxy/config'
>
> 5. Comment out lines containing 'logfile logfile', 'jarfile jarfile',
> 'enable-remote-toggle', 'enable-remote-http-toggle', and
> 'enable-edit-actions' by prefixing their lines with a '#' character.
>
Didn't find anything as 'jarfile'
> 6. Add the following line to the config file:
>
> forward-socks4a / 127.0.0.1:9050 .
>
> 8. Save and close the file.
>
> 9. Restart the Privoxy and TOR services.
>
> cd /etc/init.d
> su -c 'service privoxy restart'
[Nirjhor at localhost init.d]$ su -c 'service privoxy restart'
Password:
No /var/run/privoxy.pid file found, exiting.
Starting Privoxy, Failed.
> su -c 'service tor restart'
>
> 10. Download and install the Firefox TorButton from Mozilla, and click
> enable Tor to browse. This is totally optional. U can browse using Tor
> without TorButton, all u have to do, under Firefox, go to the Edit menu >
> Preferences > Advanced > Network > Settings > Manual Proxy Configuration >
> http proxy > host: 127.0.0.1 port: 8118. And check use this Proxy Server
> for all protocol.
>
> 11. Thats it.
>
>
> PS: What did I always tell u? 1st check the repo for the software u want to
> install.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Junayeed Ahnaf
>
> <zombiegenerator at gmail.com>wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was trying to setup TOR (doesn't matter why I just wanna do). But
> > things get
> > messed up. Let me tell you my steps first:
> >
> > **First I created a repo of TOR in my /etc/yum.repos.d/ with:
> >
> > [torproject]
> > name=Tor and Vidalia
> > enabled=1
> > autorefresh=0
> > baseurl=http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/rpm/fc12/
> > type=rpm-md
> > gpgcheck=1
> > gpgkey=
> > http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/rpm/RPM-GPG-KEY-torproject.org
> >
> > **Then installed it with "yum install tor"
> >
> > **Uninstalled privoxy with "yum remove privoxy"
> >
> > **Installed polipo with "yum install polipo"
> >
> > **configured polipo with "nano /etc/polipo/config" (What is my current
> > polipo
> > configuration? check
> > https://svn.torproject.org/svn/torbrowser/trunk/build-
> > scripts/config/polipo.conf<https://svn.torproject.org/svn/torbrowser/trun
> > k/build-%0Ascripts/config/polipo.conf> )
> >
> > **Problem is now, after issuing "/etc/init.d/polipo restart" this is
> > happening:
> >
> > [root at localhost Nirjhor]# /etc/init.d/polipo restart
> > Stopping polipo: [FAILED]
> > Starting polipo: Established listening socket on port 8118.
> >
> > ##Installed torbutton for firefox but can't browse anything with it. Also
> > I want to configure opera to use TOR.
> >
> > Please guide me.................
> > --
> > Regards-
> > Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor
> > Documentation Team,
> > Linux Mint Bangladesh,
> > Bogra.
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--
Regards-
Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor
Documentation Team,
Linux Mint Bangladesh,
Bogra.
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