Hi sorry for asking this question i've googeled for this solution but i didnt find anything! I've installed tor or vadalia but when i want to run it it give me this error :
Vidalia detected that the Tor software exited unexpectedly.
I dont know how to stop it! sorry because i'm newbie in ubuntu and i knew that my qestion is so redculous but i need to connect to the internet by tor and i cant fix it ! tnxxxxx alot for responding!
Best Answer
In order to use
tor
. Installtor
which will installpolipo
as a recommended package.What you need to configure is polipo/privoxy for tor as your are using http proxy. Tor doesnot use 8118 as its port it uses 9050 and it is a socks proxy. You can use this configuration for
polipo
to use withtor
. Just do:sudo wget https://gitweb.torproject.org/torbrowser.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/build-scripts/config/polipo.conf -O /etc/polipo/config
sudo service tor stop && sudo service polipo stop
sudo service tor start && sudo service polipo start
tor needs to start before polipo, or else polipo will occupy the 9050 port and tor will start with errors
I am giving much focus here on
polipo
because tor itself recommendspolipo
and is installed by default ontor
installation. You can useprivoxy
in place ofpolipo
as well. Most of thetor
users recommend using the default socks proxy if the application handles it.If you want to connect everything through tor you need to set system proxy with System Settings > Network > Network Proxy
And then setup proxy to
127.0.0.1
and port to8118
. Use socks proxy where supported just change port to9050
and type tosocks5
.Optionally, install any browser proxy switch addons, I use
chromium
withproxyswitchy
. Similary choose one for firefox if you use firefox. AFAIK pidgin, xchat, thunderbird support socks5 proxy. I think firefox also supports socks5.Tor check failed though Vidalia shows green onion