- <hr align="LEFT" width="100%">
- </div>
- <div class="SECT1">
- <h1 class="SECT1">
- <a name="INSTALLATION">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=
- "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">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">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">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">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">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">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">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">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">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>
- <p>
- </p>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
-<pre class="SCREEN">
- tar xzvf privoxy-3.0.26-beta-src.tar.gz
- cd privoxy-3.0.26-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>
- <p>
- </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>
- <p>
- </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>
- <p>
- </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>
- <p>
- </p>
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
-<pre class="SCREEN">
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