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->2. Installation</A
-></H1
-><P
-> <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Privoxy</SPAN
-> is available both in convenient pre-compiled
- packages for a wide range of operating systems, and as raw source code.
- For most users, we recommend using the packages, which can be downloaded from our
- <A
-HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/"
-TARGET="_top"
->Privoxy Project
- Page</A
->.</P
-><P
-> Note: If you have a previous <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Junkbuster</SPAN
-> or
- <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Privoxy</SPAN
-> installation on your system, you
- will need to remove it. On some platforms, this may be done for you as part
- of their installation procedure. (See below for your platform). In any case
- <I
-CLASS="EMPHASIS"
->be sure to backup your old configuration if it is valuable to
- you.</I
-> See the <A
-HREF="upgradersnote.html"
->note to
- upgraders</A
-> section below.</P
-><DIV
-CLASS="SECT2"
-><H2
-CLASS="SECT2"
-><A
-NAME="INSTALLATION-PACKAGES"
->2.1. Binary Packages</A
-></H2
-><P
->How to install the binary packages depends on your operating system:</P
-><DIV
-CLASS="SECT3"
-><H3
-CLASS="SECT3"
-><A
-NAME="INSTALLATION-PACK-RPM"
->2.1.1. Red Hat, SuSE RPMs and Conectiva</A
-></H3
-><P
-> RPMs can be installed with <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
->rpm -Uvh privoxy-2.9.15-1.rpm</TT
->,
- and will use <TT
-CLASS="FILENAME"
->/etc/privoxy</TT
-> for the location
- of configuration files.</P
-><P
-> Note that on Red Hat, <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Privoxy</SPAN
-> will
- <I
-CLASS="EMPHASIS"
->not</I
-> be automatically started on system boot. You will
- need to enable that using <B
-CLASS="COMMAND"
->chkconfig</B
->,
- <B
-CLASS="COMMAND"
->ntsysv</B
->, or similar methods. Note that SuSE will
-automatically start Privoxy in the boot process.</P
-><P
-> If you have problems with failed dependencies, try rebuilding the SRC RPM:
- <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
->rpm --rebuild privoxy-2.9.15-1.src.rpm;</TT
->. This
- will use your locally installed libraries and RPM version. </P
-><P
-> Also note that if you have a <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Junkbuster</SPAN
-> RPM installed
- on your system, you need to remove it first, because the packages conflict.
- Otherwise, RPM will try to remove <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Junkbuster</SPAN
->
- automatically, before installing <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Privoxy</SPAN
->.</P
-></DIV
-><DIV
-CLASS="SECT3"
-><H3
-CLASS="SECT3"
-><A
-NAME="INSTALLATION-DEB"
->2.1.2. Debian</A
-></H3
-><P
-> DEBs can be installed with <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
->dpkg -i
- privoxy_2.9.15-1.deb</TT
->, and will use
- <TT
-CLASS="FILENAME"
->/etc/privoxy</TT
-> for the location of configuration
- files.</P
-></DIV
-><DIV
-CLASS="SECT3"
-><H3
-CLASS="SECT3"
-><A
-NAME="INSTALLATION-PACK-WIN"
->2.1.3. Windows</A
-></H3
-><P
-> Just double-click the installer, which will guide you through
- the installation process. You will find the configuration files
- in the same directory as you installed Privoxy in. We do not
- use the registry of Windows. </P
-></DIV
-><DIV
-CLASS="SECT3"
-><H3
-CLASS="SECT3"
-><A
-NAME="INSTALLATION-PACK-BINTGZ"
->2.1.4. Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, HP-UX</A
-></H3
-><P
-> Create a new directory, <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
->cd</TT
-> to it, then unzip and
- untar the archive. For the most part, you'll have to figure out where
- things go. FIXME.</P
-></DIV
-><DIV
-CLASS="SECT3"
-><H3
-CLASS="SECT3"
-><A
-NAME="INSTALLATION-OS2"
->2.1.5. OS/2</A
-></H3
-><P
-> First, make sure that no previous installations of
- <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Junkbuster</SPAN
-> and / or
- <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Privoxy</SPAN
-> are left on your
- system. You can do this by </P
-><P
-> Then, just double-click the WarpIN self-installing archive, which will
- guide you through the installation process. A shadow of the
- <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Privoxy</SPAN
-> executable will be placed in your
- startup folder so it will start automatically whenever OS/2 starts.</P
-><P
-> The directory you choose to install <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Privoxy</SPAN
->
- into will contain all of the configuration files.</P
-></DIV
-><DIV
-CLASS="SECT3"
-><H3
-CLASS="SECT3"
-><A
-NAME="INSTALLATION-MAC"
->2.1.6. Max OSX</A
-></H3
-><P
-> Unzip the downloaded package (you can either double-click on the file
- in the finder, or on the desktop if you downloaded it there). Then,
- double-click on the package installer icon and follow the installation
- process.
- <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Privoxy</SPAN
-> will be installed in the subdirectory
- <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
->/Applications/Privoxy.app</TT
->.
- <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Privoxy</SPAN
-> will set itself up to start
- automatically on system bring-up via
- <TT
-CLASS="LITERAL"
->/System/Library/StartupItems/Privoxy</TT
->.</P
-></DIV
-><DIV
-CLASS="SECT3"
-><H3
-CLASS="SECT3"
-><A
-NAME="INSTALLATION-AMIGA"
->2.1.7. AmigaOS</A
-></H3
-><P
-> Copy and then unpack the <TT
-CLASS="FILENAME"
->lha</TT
-> archive to a suitable location.
- All necessary files will be installed into <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Privoxy</SPAN
->
- directory, including all configuration and log files. To uninstall, just
- remove this directory.</P
-><P
-> Start <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Privoxy</SPAN
-> (with RUN <>NIL:) in your
- <TT
-CLASS="FILENAME"
->startnet</TT
-> script (AmiTCP), in
- <TT
-CLASS="FILENAME"
->s:user-startup</TT
-> (RoadShow), as startup program in your
- startup script (Genesis), or as startup action (Miami and MiamiDx).
- <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Privoxy</SPAN
-> will automatically quit when you quit your
- TCP/IP stack (just ignore the harmless warning your TCP/IP stack may display that
- <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Privoxy</SPAN
-> is still running).</P
-></DIV
-></DIV
-><DIV
-CLASS="SECT2"
-><H2
-CLASS="SECT2"
-><A
-NAME="INSTALLATION-SOURCE"
->2.2. Building from Source</A
-></H2
-><P
-> The most convenient way to obtain the <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Privoxy</SPAN
-> sources
- is to download the source tarball from our <A
-HREF="http://sf.net/projects/ijbswa/"
-TARGET="_top"
->project
- page</A
->.</P
-><P
-> If you like to live on the bleeding edge and are not afraid of using
- possibly unstable development versions, you can check out the up-to-the-minute
- version directly from <A
-HREF="http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=11118"
-TARGET="_top"
->the
- CVS repository</A
-> or simply download <A
-HREF="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/ijbswa-cvsroot.tar.gz"
-TARGET="_top"
->the nightly CVS
- tarball.</A
-></P
-><P
-> To build <SPAN
-CLASS="APPLICATION"
->Privoxy</SPAN
-> from source,
- <A
-HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html"
-TARGET="_top"
->autoconf</A
->,
- <A
-HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/make/make.html"
-TARGET="_top"
->GNU make
- (gmake)</A
->, and, of course, a C compiler like <A
-HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html"
-TARGET="_top"
->gcc</A
-> are required.</P
-><P
-> When building from a source tarball (either release version or
- <A
-HREF="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/ijbswa-cvsroot.tar.gz"
-TARGET="_top"
->nightly CVS
- tarball</A
->), first unpack the source: </P
-><P
-> <TABLE
-BORDER="0"
-BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
-WIDTH="100%"
-><TR
-><TD
-><PRE
-CLASS="SCREEN"
-> tar xzvf privoxy-2.9.15-beta-src* [.tgz or .tar.gz]
- cd privoxy-2.9.15-beta</PRE
-></TD
-></TR
-></TABLE
-></P
-><P
-> For retrieving the current CVS sources, you'll need CVS installed.
- Note that sources from CVS are development quality, and may not be
- stable, or well tested. To download CVS source:</P
-><P
-> <TABLE
-BORDER="0"
-BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
-WIDTH="100%"
-><TR
-><TD
-><PRE
-CLASS="SCREEN"
-> cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.ijbswa.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa login
- cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.ijbswa.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa co current
- cd current</PRE
-></TD
-></TR
-></TABLE
-></P
-><P
-> This will create a directory named <TT
-CLASS="FILENAME"
->current/</TT
->, which will
- contain the source tree.</P
-><P
-> Then, in either case, to build from unpacked tarball or CVS source:</P
-><P
-> <TABLE
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+ Installation</a></h1>
+
+ <p><span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is available both in
+ convenient pre-compiled packages for a wide range of operating systems,
+ and as raw source code. For most users, we recommend using the packages,
+ which can be downloaded from our <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/" target="_top">Privoxy Project
+ Page</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>Note: On some platforms, the installer may remove previously installed
+ versions, if found. (See below for your platform). In any case
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">be sure to backup your old
+ configuration if it is valuable to you.</i></span> See the <a href=
+ "whatsnew.html#UPGRADERSNOTE">note to upgraders</a> section below.</p>
+
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="INSTALLATION-PACKAGES" id=
+ "INSTALLATION-PACKAGES">2.1. Binary Packages</a></h2>
+
+ <p>How to install the binary packages depends on your operating
+ system:</p>
+
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="INSTALLATION-DEB" id=
+ "INSTALLATION-DEB">2.1.1. Debian and Ubuntu</a></h3>
+
+ <p>DEBs can be installed with <tt class="LITERAL">apt-get install
+ privoxy</tt>, and will use <tt class="FILENAME">/etc/privoxy</tt> for
+ the location of configuration files.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="INSTALLATION-PACK-WIN" id=
+ "INSTALLATION-PACK-WIN">2.1.2. Windows</a></h3>
+
+ <p>Just double-click the installer, which will guide you through the
+ installation process. You will find the configuration files in the
+ same directory as you installed <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> in.</p>
+
+ <p>Version 3.0.5 beta introduced full <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Windows</span> service functionality. On Windows only,
+ the <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> program has two new
+ command line arguments to install and uninstall <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as a <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">service</i></span>.</p>
+
+ <div class="VARIABLELIST">
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Arguments:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>--install</i></tt>[:<tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>service_name</i></tt>]</p>
+
+ <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>--uninstall</i></tt>[:<tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>service_name</i></tt>]</p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </div>
+
+ <p>After invoking <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> with
+ <b class="COMMAND">--install</b>, you will need to bring up the
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Windows</span> service console to assign
+ the user you want <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to run
+ under, and whether or not you want it to run whenever the system
+ starts. You can start the <span class="APPLICATION">Windows</span>
+ services console with the following command: <b class=
+ "COMMAND">services.msc</b>. If you do not take the manual step of
+ modifying <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy's</span> service
+ settings, it will not start. Note too that you will need to give
+ Privoxy a user account that actually exists, or it will not be
+ permitted to write to its log and configuration files.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="INSTALLATION-OS2" id=
+ "INSTALLATION-OS2">2.1.3. OS/2</a></h3>
+
+ <p>First, make sure that no previous installations of <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span> and / or <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> are left on your system. Check that no
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Junkbuster</span> or <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> objects are in your startup folder.</p>
+
+ <p>Then, just double-click the WarpIN self-installing archive, which
+ will guide you through the installation process. A shadow of the
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> executable will be placed in
+ your startup folder so it will start automatically whenever OS/2
+ starts.</p>
+
+ <p>The directory you choose to install <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> into will contain all of the
+ configuration files.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="INSTALLATION-MAC" id=
+ "INSTALLATION-MAC">2.1.4. Mac OS X</a></h3>
+
+ <p>Installation instructions for the OS X platform depend upon
+ whether you downloaded a ready-built installation package (.pkg or
+ .mpkg) or have downloaded the source code.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="OS-X-INSTALL-FROM-PACKAGE" id=
+ "OS-X-INSTALL-FROM-PACKAGE">2.1.5. Installation from ready-built
+ package</a></h4>
+
+ <p>The downloaded file will either be a .pkg (for OS X 10.5 upwards)
+ or a bzipped .mpkg file (for OS X 10.4). The former can be
+ double-clicked as is and the installation will start; double-clicking
+ the latter will unzip the .mpkg file which can then be double-clicked
+ to commence the installation.</p>
+
+ <p>The privoxy service will automatically start after a successful
+ installation (and thereafter every time your computer starts up)
+ however you will need to configure your web browser(s) to use it. To
+ do so, configure them to use a proxy for HTTP and HTTPS at the
+ address 127.0.0.1:8118.</p>
+
+ <p>To prevent the privoxy service from automatically starting when
+ your computer starts up, remove or rename the file <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.ijbswa.privoxy.plist</tt> (on OS
+ X 10.5 and higher) or the folder named <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">/Library/StartupItems/Privoxy</tt> (on OS X 10.4
+ 'Tiger').</p>
+
+ <p>To manually start or stop the privoxy service, use the scripts
+ startPrivoxy.sh and stopPrivoxy.sh supplied in /Applications/Privoxy.
+ They must be run from an administrator account, using sudo.</p>
+
+ <p>To uninstall, run /Applications/Privoxy/uninstall.command as sudo
+ from an administrator account.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h4 class="SECT3"><a name="OS-X-INSTALL-FROM-SOURCE" id=
+ "OS-X-INSTALL-FROM-SOURCE">2.1.6. Installation from source</a></h4>
+
+ <p>To build and install the Privoxy source code on OS X you will need
+ to obtain the macsetup module from the Privoxy Sourceforge CVS
+ repository (refer to Sourceforge help for details of how to set up a
+ CVS client to have read-only access to the repository). This module
+ contains scripts that leverage the usual open-source tools (available
+ as part of Apple's free of charge Xcode distribution or via the usual
+ open-source software package managers for OS X (MacPorts, Homebrew,
+ Fink etc.) to build and then install the privoxy binary and
+ associated files. The macsetup module's README file contains complete
+ instructions for its use.</p>
+
+ <p>The privoxy service will automatically start after a successful
+ installation (and thereafter every time your computer starts up)
+ however you will need to configure your web browser(s) to use it. To
+ do so, configure them to use a proxy for HTTP and HTTPS at the
+ address 127.0.0.1:8118.</p>
+
+ <p>To prevent the privoxy service from automatically starting when
+ your computer starts up, remove or rename the file <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.ijbswa.privoxy.plist</tt> (on OS
+ X 10.5 and higher) or the folder named <tt class=
+ "LITERAL">/Library/StartupItems/Privoxy</tt> (on OS X 10.4
+ 'Tiger').</p>
+
+ <p>To manually start or stop the privoxy service, use the Privoxy
+ Utility for Mac OS X (also part of the macsetup module). This
+ application can start and stop the privoxy service and display its
+ log and configuration files.</p>
+
+ <p>To uninstall, run the macsetup module's uninstall.sh as sudo from
+ an administrator account.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="SECT3">
+ <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="INSTALLATION-FREEBSD" id=
+ "INSTALLATION-FREEBSD">2.1.7. FreeBSD</a></h3>
+
+ <p>Privoxy is part of FreeBSD's Ports Collection, you can build and
+ install it with <tt class="LITERAL">cd /usr/ports/www/privoxy; make
+ install clean</tt>.</p>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="INSTALLATION-SOURCE" id=
+ "INSTALLATION-SOURCE">2.2. Building from Source</a></h2>
+
+ <p>The most convenient way to obtain the <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> sources is to download the source tarball
+ from our <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/files/Sources/" target=
+ "_top">project download page</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>If you like to live on the bleeding edge and are not afraid of using
+ possibly unstable development versions, you can check out the
+ up-to-the-minute version directly from <a href=
+ "https://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/code/?source=navbar" target=
+ "_top">the CVS repository</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>To build <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> from source,
+ <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html" target=
+ "_top">autoconf</a>, <a href=
+ "http://www.gnu.org/software/make/make.html" target="_top">GNU make
+ (gmake)</a>, and, of course, a C compiler like <a href=
+ "http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html" target="_top">gcc</a> are
+ required.</p>
+
+ <p>When building from a source tarball, first unpack the source:</p>
+
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <pre class="SCREEN">
+ tar xzvf privoxy-3.0.25-beta-src.tar.gz
+ cd privoxy-3.0.25-beta
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>For retrieving the current CVS sources, you'll need a CVS client
+ installed. Note that sources from CVS are typically development
+ quality, and may not be stable, or well tested. To download CVS source,
+ check the Sourceforge documentation, which might give commands
+ like:</p>
+
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <pre class="SCREEN">
+ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa login
+ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa co current
+ cd current
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>This will create a directory named <tt class=
+ "FILENAME">current/</tt>, which will contain the source tree.</p>
+
+ <p>You can also check out any <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ <span class="QUOTE">"branch"</span>, just exchange the <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">current</span> name with the wanted branch name (Example:
+ v_3_0_branch for the 3.0 cvs tree).</p>
+
+ <p>It is also strongly recommended to not run <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as root. You should configure/install/run
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as an unprivileged user,
+ preferably by creating a <span class="QUOTE">"privoxy"</span> user and
+ group just for this purpose. See your local documentation for the
+ correct command line to do add new users and groups (something like
+ <b class="COMMAND">adduser</b>, but the command syntax may vary from
+ platform to platform).</p>
+
+ <p><tt class="FILENAME">/etc/passwd</tt> might then look like:</p>
+
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <pre class="SCREEN">
+ privoxy:*:7777:7777:privoxy proxy:/no/home:/no/shell
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>And then <tt class="FILENAME">/etc/group</tt>, like:</p>
+
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <pre class="SCREEN">
+ privoxy:*:7777:
+</pre>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <p>Some binary packages may do this for you.</p>
+
+ <p>Then, to build from either unpacked tarball or CVS source:</p>
+
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <pre class="SCREEN">
+ autoheader