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TOR is a free software implementation of second-generation onion routing, a system enabling its users to communicate anonymously on the Internet.
In other words, TOR helps you to keep your browsing in the internet anonymously.
The software is open-source, released under a BSD license, and the network is free of charge to use.
Though the name Tor originated as an acronym of The Onion Routing project, the current project no longer considers the name to be an acronym, and therefore does not use capital letters.[1]
How to install TOR, polipo, privoxy and TOR button
on Ubuntu 10.04
- Go to your console/commandline/terminal and write:
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
- Add the following anywhere in the file and save it:
deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org lucid main deb-src http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org lucid main
- Import the gpg key for getting files from the tor repository, write in terminal:
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv 886DDD89 gpg --export A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89 | sudo apt-key add -
- Now do an list update and install tor and some needed components, write in terminal:
sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get upgrade ; sudo apt-get install tor tor-geoipdb privoxy
- Then edit the privoxy config file, write in terminal:
gksudo gedit /etc/privoxy/config
- Add this anywhere in the file: Then save it.
forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .
- Now start TOR and Privoxy, write in terminal:
sudo /etc/init.d/tor start ; sudo /etc/init.d/privoxy start
- Check if privoxy is workin, write in terminal:
netstat -a | grep 9050
- You should see as result something like:
"tcp 0 0 localhost:9050 *:* LISTEN"
- Add Torbutton to firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/2275/
on Ubuntu 10.10
Do the same steps like for 10.04. The Lucid repos work with 10.10.
We change the info, if the maverick (10.10) repo is there.