Comments on: Howto Install TOR,Privoxy and Tor GUI Programs (Vidalia,Tork and Torbutton)in Ubuntu

By: don't worry

don't worry — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:14:00 +0000

@Jules Why in the world are you using ubuntu if you don’t even know what version you’re running.

By: Steven P

Steven P — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:37:52 +0000

502 gateway error. I can browse using IP addresses (tor & privoxy), but not using eg domain.tld.

Like most things linux, documentation is spotty …

By: E.

E. — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:09:19 +0000

Do you know any cool ~ very detailed tutorial / how-to about vidalia settings and/or TorK ??
Especially the configuration of vidalia => torrc file like various conditions, exceptions etc. ? Thanx for your tip.

By: roby718

roby718 — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:36:27 +0000

Whenever i restart my computer (after properly exiting tor) vidalia says that it couldn’t start tor cause it exited wrong.

By: Neo

Neo — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:32:59 +0000

Mr. Jules,
There is a .deb file in ubuntu/debian-based linux which is like the .msi or exe in windows. Just download it,double-click it. Astalavista baby…

By: San Diego Web Development

San Diego Web Development — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:30:35 +0000

Super sweet. Not sure if I have it setup correctly yet but tor is obviously very powerful. Stay anonymous my friends

By: myself

myself — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:51:06 +0000

@bogomol it is not there…

By: myself

myself — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:49:18 +0000

seriously…@jules, i agree with you.

Can someone please tell me where tor is installed? it is not in /usr/bin/tor even though i installed it using a shell using the sudo -apt get install tor whatever…

seriously, where is tor…

By: jules

jules — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:24:49 +0000

None one of the instructions to install anything works for me. Just shows why Linux is not popular. A pity because it is at heart far better than Windows! Why on earth can’t you have the equivalent of a “exe” file which installs in seconds, instead of all this messing about with change this add this then do this, then…. I can’t fathom out anything. Why on earth cannot Linux/Ubuntu people realise than we are not all PhDs in computers. Why not a simpler process? I do not understand a word of the above - not one word - just tell me:

download x
Install y by pressing button z
just like windows

I have linux 10.04 or whatver it is, something Lynx. I mean even if windows can get things to install things easily then surely the Linux people can. Aaaaaaaaaaah!

By: bogomol

bogomol — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:24:14 +0000

” static_oxyg3n says:
June 25, 2009 at 4:53 am

hey, after i install tor and Vidalia on ubuntu 9.4 it’s ask for the dir of tor executable ? !!, any body know the bath of this executable app”

the path to tor is: /usr/sbin/tor

By: peethi

peethi — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:25:52 +0000

i have copied vidalia files on my desktop but donot knw wht to do after that please help in changing the settings

By: static_oxyg3n

static_oxyg3n — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:53:06 +0000

hey, after i install tor and Vidalia on ubuntu 9.4 it’s ask for the dir of tor executable ? !!, any body know the bath of this executable app

By: Gerry

Gerry — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:05:28 +0000

It seems each author on launchpad has their own page with specifies the key if they have one. Here is the link to this author:

https://launchpad.net/~adnarim/+archive/ppa

I’m glad I found it because I really needed Vidalia.

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:18:10 +0000

I’ve noticed the same problem as Rykel above. Under Intrepid, Vidalia seems to get stuck somewhere waiting for tor to “say something”. I can run tor just fine by manually playing with the init scripts, so Vidalia isn’t exactly a necessity. It’s sure nice to be able to alter tor settings on the fly, though . . .

By: vitorio

vitorio — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:29:59 +0000

sorry, only now noticed that i’ve failed to say what application i was talking about. pretty bad mistake that renders my comment in vain.

i meant vidalia package in this repository http://ppa.launchpad.net/adnarim/ubuntu hardy main .

By: vitorio

vitorio — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:54:28 +0000

i think it’s a pretty bad idea advising installation from a repository whose owner even did not bother to provide a key for a package.

the keys there are provided only for tarballs but not for any of the deb packages that are used by ubuntu apt-get.

rightfully apt-get install complains about a package not being identified.

i personally aborted. one may consider me paranoid. but at the end this is a security related application thus the archive owner should treat it with a minimum respect to this fact.

probably i’m not a geek enough.

By: Rykel

Rykel — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:48:49 +0000

Hi, I installed Tor and Vidalia on Ubuntu Intrepid, and Vidalia dialog hangs upon startup. Only a “killall” can stop the 2 programs.

My Tor and Vidalia were installed from Ubuntu Intrepid repos and Adnarim PPA respectively.

Can you please advise?

By: Cebolla

Cebolla — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:29:45 +0000

noreply.org is the ideal place for Tor and Privoxy debs. If you go to the official Vidalia page you can check out the latest development snapshot using subversion. Be sure the subversion package as well as the ones listed above are installed. after svn checkout, compile inside of ~/vidalia using ‘cmake . && make ; sudo make install’ Do not run vidalia with tor running! sudo /etc/init.d/tor stop. then sudo edit /etc/tor/torrc and add ‘RunAsDaemon 0′ (without the ‘) and also user edit ~/.vidalia/torrc and add the same (starting Tor within vidalia uses a seperate config). Vidalia will complain if Tor is running under default noreply.org (OR offical ubuntu debs) configuration, once those edits in place, and verified Tor is not running, start vidalia, go into preferences and uncheck the option to start Tor automatically. After that you may play with stop/start/new identity (change ip address on demand), and with those edits vidalia will not hang on start. Use torbutton only, remove any live bookmarks, they can leak information, latest firefox can leak timezone. be sure to follow /etc/privoxy/config configuration to forward socks4a on localhost. sudo /etc/init.d/privoxy force-reload && sudo /etc/init.d/priovxy restart.

support a free internet, donate to eff.org who protects our rights in this country including the legal use of Tor, support america’s covert black ops programs, support the victims of crime, and do not use Tor for illegal purposes.

Tor/privoxy/vidalia information verified as working in Hardy Heron and Intrepid Ibex (currently ubuntu repo for tor/privoxy)

By: Oxan

Oxan — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:34:12 +0000

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.

By: pippo

pippo — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:31:42 +0000

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