Howto Install TOR,Privoxy and Tor GUI Programs (Vidalia,Tork and Torbutton)in Ubuntu
Posted by admin on May 13th, 2008 
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Tor works with many of your existing applications, including web browsers, instant messaging clients, remote login, and other applications based on the TCP protocol.
Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying
web page data, managing HTTP cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other
obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual
needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.
Install Tor and privoxy in Ubuntu
sudo aptitude install tor privoxy
This will complete the installation.
GUI Tools Available for Tor
Currently we have the following TOR GUI Applications
Vidalia
Vidalia is a cross-platform controller GUI for the Tor software, built using the Qt framework. Using Vidalia, you can start and stop the Tor software, view its status at a glance, and monitor bandwidth usage. Vidalia also makes it easy to contribute to the Tor network by helping you set up and manage your own relay.
Torbutton
Torbutton is a 1-click way for Firefox users to enable or disable the browser’s use of Tor. It adds a panel to the statusbar that says “Tor Enabled” (in green) or “Tor Disabled” (in red). The user may click on the panel to toggle the status. If the user (or some other extension) changes the proxy settings, the change is automatically reflected in the statusbar.
Some users may prefer a toolbar button instead of a statusbar panel. Such a button is included, and one adds it to the toolbar by right-clicking on the desired toolbar, selecting “Customize…”, and then dragging the Torbutton icon onto the toolbar. There is an option in the preferences to hide the statusbar panel (Tools->Extensions, select Torbutton, and click on Preferences).
Newer Firefoxes have the ability to send DNS resolves through the socks proxy, and Torbutton will make use of this feature if it is available in your version of Firefox.
TorK
TorK is a powerful anonymity manager for the KDE Desktop on Linux and Unix systems. It first helps you
to install, configure and use Tor. It then reduces the task of anonymizing most applications to a single-click, including Firefox, Opera, Konqueror, Pidgin, Kopete, SSH, and IRC. For advanced users TorK
provides detailed network information, and more, in an accessible manner.
If you wish to run TorK locally, please install the tor and privoxy packages.
Features include:
* Browse anonymously on Konqueror/Firefox/Opera.
* Send anonymous email via the MixMinion network.
* Use Internet Messaging and IRC anonymously.
* Create and manage hidden services.
Install Vidalia in Ubuntu Gutsy and Hardy
You need to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file using the following command or Go to System->Preferences->Software Sources and enter these repositories into 3rd Party Repositories and click
on reload.
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
add the following lines
For Hardy Users
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/adnarim/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/adnarim/ubuntu hardy main
For Gutsy Users
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/adnarim/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/adnarim/ubuntu gutsy main
Save and exit the file
Now you need to update the source list using the following command
sudo aptitude update
Install Vidalia using the following command
sudo aptitude install vidalia
this will complete the installation.
Now you need to open Vidalia Go to Applications—>Internet—>Vidalia
After opening you should be able see similar to the following screen.If you want to change the settings click on settings in the following screen
If you want to see Network Map click on View the Network on the above Screen
Tor Bandwidth usage
If Tor is working you can see similar to the following icon marked in Red in your notification area
If you want to configure firefox for browsing check this
Install TorK in Ubuntu
If you want to install TorK use the following command
sudo aptitude install tork
Install Torbutton in Ubuntu
Download Torbutton from here and install for your firefox.
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May 13th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Nice! I like this one! Not sure that I have too many times that I’ll need it but its good to know its there.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Upon adding the lines to the repos, and updating, I received a pgp error for each line you have to add.
Can this be fixed? Or is it fatal?
May 13th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Mark,
Install packages after updating. The pgp error is not an impediment to install that the repositories are updated.
May 14th, 2008 at 3:53 am
I really want to follow your work here. I’m confused though. I had added the line and sudo aptitude update, before I tried to install the packages. That’s when I got the pgp errors. Also, the Tor button for firefox, is that what you are doing here? Sorry. Thanks for the help.
May 22nd, 2008 at 4:35 pm
I tried this in Hardy but when I run Vidalia I get a yellow onion and not green, it then doesn’t respond?.
Before reading this I compiled the original source files for vidalia and it did the same thing.
May 29th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
doesn’t work with vidalia comes up with the yellow onion thing and refuses to properly load after that…
June 12th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
The information in this tutorial is incomplete. Sure, it can install Tor and privoxy, however it does not tell you what needs to be edited in the /etc/privoxy/config file for it to work. I am also unsure if a stock /etc/tor/torrc will work right off the bat.
Vidalia by default will work from a torrc inside of ~/.vidalia/torrc however i belieive it generates this from the existing /etc/tor/torrc
I’m also thinking that installing vidalia from source is better. under hardy to get vidalia compiled from the original vidalia tar.gz http://vidalia-project.net:8001/vidalia/vidalia-0.1.3.tar.gz it requires the following hardy packages to do so. i also believe that a released version of Tor from the noreply.org site is better than something at launchpad.net.
libqt4-dev
cmake
qt4-dev-tools
qt4-designer
build-essential
June 13th, 2008 at 1:33 am
it is also necessary to use Torbutton (with use privoxy checked) for Tor to work. (the latest dev release has the most features) there is one line that must be added from the original privoxy package config file (you must use privoxy with tor or your dns requests will still be sent to your ISP) however i cannot get vidalia (either from the repos, latest stable, or svn snapshot) to work. if you feel ok running Tor from command line, or better yet “RunAsDaemon 1″ in the /etc/tor/torrc config file, i think thats better (not having to rely on vidalia). however one thing i have not figured out how to do, is to change identities from command line. any help here?
July 9th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
after the installation of privoxy you must stop it and open the file config in /etc/privoxy and then add this line “forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .” without quote.
then restart privoxy: sudo privoxy
July 16th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
It is not mentioned that there are well know bug with vidalia gui and Hardy (Read the Tor documentation about it) which in most cases freeze and is not respond. Sometimes also takes 100% of CPU cycles and system crash.
@xboxhacker.net is right. Tor developers and community strongly suggest to download packages from noreply mirror.