From b552e0b9923993b8da64e8ae36eed086c00a6810 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roger Dingledine Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:28:52 +0000 Subject: blow away the "quickstart" from the INSTALL file. it was not being maintained adequately. svn:r6255 --- INSTALL | 59 ++++++++--------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-) (limited to 'INSTALL') diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index ddd966d1d..ed507e4dd 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,51 +1,12 @@ -Quickstart version for users: --1) If you don't have libevent, install it. Source is at - http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ . -0) Download the absolute newest version. No, really. - http://tor.eff.org/dist/ -1) tar xvf it, and then cd into the directory. -2) ./configure -3) make -4) make install (as root if necessary) -5) tor (if it doesn't work, give it the whole path or fix your path) - You don't need to run this as root, and you probably shouldn't. - (If you're having problems, try running it with "-l info" to get - more details.) -6) point your browser to socks4 or socks5 proxy at localhost port - 9050. In mozilla, this is in edit|preferences|advanced|proxies. This - allows you to test to make sure Tor is installed correctly. - (If you have a personal firewall, be sure to allow local connections - to port 9050.) - (If your firewall blocks outgoing connections, punch a hole so it - can connect to TCP *:9001-9004 and *:9031-9033) - (If you're using Safari as your browser, keep in mind that OS X before - 10.3 claims to support socks but does not. You must do step 8.) -7) make sure you've set it up correctly: go to - http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy and see what IP it says - you're coming from. If it works, you should probably go on to step 8, - to get better privacy. +Most users should simply follow the directions at +http://tor.eff.org/docs/tor-doc-unix -8) Optionally, install privoxy (www.privoxy.org), and add the line - "forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 ." (without the quotes -- don't forget - the dot) to its config file. Then change your mozilla to http proxy - at localhost port 8118 (and no socks proxy). You should also set your - SSL proxy to the same thing, to hide your https traffic. Using privoxy - will give you good html scrubbing as well. +If you got the source from cvs, run "./autogen.sh", which will run the +various auto* programs and then run ./configure for you. From there, +refer to the above instructions. -*****If this works for you, you can stop reading here****** - -If you got the source from cvs: - - Run "./autogen.sh", which will run the various auto* programs and then - run ./configure for you. From there, start at step 3 in the quickstart - list above. - -If the quickstart doesn't work for you: - - Starting with Tor 0.1.0.0, Tor uses libevent for its asynchronous - networking core. If you don't have libevent, you'll need to install it. - You can get it at http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/. +If it doesn't build for you: If you have problems finding libraries, try CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" \ @@ -58,10 +19,6 @@ If the quickstart doesn't work for you: consider setting your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the openssl lib directory. For example, "setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/athena/lib". - Check out the list archives at http://archives.seul.org/or/dev/ or - the bug tracker at - http://bugs.noreply.org/flyspray/index.php?tasks=all&project=4 and - see if somebody else has reported your problem. If not, please - subscribe and let us know what you did to fix it, or give us the - details and we'll see what we can do. + Lastly, check out + http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#ItDoesntWork -- cgit v1.2.3