From 6957f8ed276161076dd9b04dbb157f027b92f7e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roger Dingledine Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:57:18 +0000 Subject: break the quickstart into INSTALL remove the old useless generic INSTALL svn:r547 --- README | 48 ++++++------------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 6009cd184..54bb6cfbc 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ + 'tor' is an implementation of The Onion Routing system, as described in a bit more detail at http://www.onion-router.net/. You can read list archives, and subscribe to the mailing list, at @@ -6,36 +7,12 @@ http://archives.seul.org/or/dev/. Is your question in the FAQ? Should it be? ************************************************************************** - -Quickstart version for users: - -0) Download the absolute newest version. No, really. - http://freehaven.net/tor/ (unfortunately they're all unreadable now, - so you must skip this step) -1) tar xvf it, and then cd into the directory. -2) ./configure (or do the two-line version below, if you're on bsd) -3) make -4) cd src/config -5) ../or/tor -f oprc - You don't need to run this as root, and you probably shouldn't. -6) point your browser to socks4 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. -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. - -8) Optionally, install privoxy (www.privoxy.org), and add the line - "forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 ." (without the quotes) to its config - file. Then change your mozilla to http proxy at localhost port 8118 (and - no socks proxy). This step will give you good html scrubbing as well. - -If this works for you, you can stop reading. Otherwise, below is a more -detailed version. +See the INSTALL file for a quickstart. This is all you will probably need. +************************************************************************** ************************************************************************** -You only need to look beyond this point if the above doesn't work for you. +You only need to look beyond this point if the quickstart in the INSTALL +doesn't work for you. ************************************************************************** Dependencies: @@ -73,20 +50,7 @@ Do you want to run a tor server? be able to authenticate to the other tor nodes until I've added you to the directory. -How to use it for web browsing: - - Download privoxy (www.privoxy.org). Install it. Add the following - line to your 'config' file (it might be in /etc/privoxy/config) : - forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 . - Don't forget the . at the end. - - From here, you can point your browser/etc to localhost port 8118 (as - an http proxy) and your traffic will go through Privoxy, then through - the onion proxy, to the onion routing network. - - You can also ignore the whole privoxy thing and set your Mozilla to - use localhost 9050 directly as a socks4 server. But see doc/CLIENTS - for why this may not give you the anonymity you want. +Command-line web browsing: For more convenient command-line use, I recommend making a ~/.wgetrc with the line -- cgit v1.2.3