Tor and Polipo installation steps
I am having a problem of installing and configuring Tor and Polipo on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I want to patch it in the system. I don't want to use the normal Vidalia program and browser. I need exactly to make it run in the system background and then i choose what to connect to it .. browsers or chat clients ..
Please i need set by step help and command line .. tor website doesnt show the exact help i needed
So if I understand you correctly you don't want the Tor Browser Bundle, but just Tor and Polipo running as daemon processes in the background. You can get a Tor Ubuntu package from the Tor Project. You have to do the following steps:
echo "deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org precise main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
This appends the line beginning with deb in your sources.list (Please see also How do I add a line to my /etc/apt/sources.list?). Furthermore you have to import the GnuPG key from the maintainer:
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv 886DDD89
gpg --export A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89 | sudo apt-key add -
Now you can install Tor and Polipo (from Ubuntu repository):
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tor polipo
Now you have to configure Polipo. A good choice is the Polipo config file from the Tor Project. It has all necessary settings. If you want to do it on your own. You need to edit /etc/polipo/config. The important settings are:
socksParentProxy = "localhost:9050"
socksProxyType = socks5
Now Polipo sends its requests through Tor. The last step ist to configure your applications. Please have a look at the TorifyHOWTO. There you'll find several applications and hints for torifying them.
Everytime when you start your computer Tor and Polipo will start in the background and wait for connections.
Okay, this is a fairly challenging task for a beginner, but just follow my instructions, and it should be fine.
First off, download the .tar.gz file, and SAVE it. Don't open it. Download Tor from here. (If you don't know whether your computer is 32-bit or 64-bit, then go to System Settings>Details>Overview>OS Type.)
If you've never used the Terminal before, then just remember this: press Enter between lines, but be SURE that you give it time to finish before you type the next thing. (You know it's ready for the next command if it looks like this: user@user-computerModel-XY123:~$ . For example, mine looks like james@james-OptiPlex-GX620:~$ .)
After you've downloaded your file, open the Terminal by pressing CTRL+ALT+T, and, (assuming that you saved it to Downloads,) type the following (for 32-bit):
cd Downloads
sudo cp tor-browser-gnu-linux-i686-2.2.39-1-dev-en-US.tar.gz /opt/
NOTE: If you're using the 64-bit version, type this instead:
sudo cp tor-browser-gnu-linux-x86_64-2.2.39-1-dev-en-US.tar.gz /opt/
Now, change to the /opt/ directory, extract the program, and remove the old file:
cd /opt/
sudo tar -xvf tor-browser-gnu-linux-i686-2.2.39-1-dev-en-US.tar.gz
sudo rm -rf tor-browser-gnu-linux-i686-2.2.39-1-dev-en-US.tar.gz
Again, for 64-bit, use the 64-bit filename INSTEAD OF THE OTHER ONE:
cd /opt/
sudo tar -xvf tor-browser-gnu-linux-x86_64-2.2.39-1-dev-en-US.tar.gz
sudo rm -rf tor-browser-gnu-linux-x86_64-2.2.39-1-dev-en-US.tar.gz
Okay, time to allow it to run:
sudo chmod 777 tor-browser_en-US/
Okay, it's now marked as executable, so it's time to create a symbolic link (this is what allows you to run it from the Terminal):
sudo ln -s /opt/tor-browser_en-US/start-tor-browser /usr/bin/tor-browser
Okay, you're done. The program is now installed and runnable from the Terminal. (Type tor-browser to run it.)
What's this? You say you want to be able to run it from the launcher? No problem!
(NOTE: if you want an icon, find one online, and save it as /opt/tor-browser_en-US/torbrowser.png)
This part is fairly simple:
gksu gedit /usr/share/applications/tor-browser.desktop
Copy-and-paste this into the window:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Tor Browser
Comment=Browse the World Wide Web Anonymously
GenericName=Web Browser
Keywords=Internet;WWW;Browser;Web;Explorer
Exec=tor-browser
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=/opt/tor-browser_en-US/torbrowser.png
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;x-scheme-handler/chrome;video/webm;application/x-xpinstall;
StartupNotify=true
Now, click "Save", close out the Terminal, and you're in business!
Sorry that tutorial took so long. Thanks for reading!