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- * File : $Source: /cvsroot/ijbswa/current/INSTALL,v $
+ * File : $Source: /cvsroot/ijbswa/current/doc/source/install.sgml,v $
*
* Purpose : INSTALL file to help with installing from source.
*
* Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2009 the
- * Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/
+ * Privoxy team. https://www.privoxy.org/
*
* Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written
* by and Copyright (C) 1997 Anonymous Coders and
* USA
*
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When building from a source tarball, first unpack the source:
- tar xzvf privoxy-3.0.22-stable-src.tar.gz
- cd privoxy-3.0.22-stable
+ tar xzvf privoxy-3.0.34-beta-src.tar.gz
+ cd privoxy-3.0.34-beta
-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:
+To build the development version, you can get the source code by doing:
- 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
+ cd <root-dir>
+ git clone https://www.privoxy.org/git/privoxy.git
-This will create a directory named current/, which will contain the source
-tree.
+This will create a directory named <root-dir>/privoxy/, which will contain the
+source tree.
-You can also check out any Privoxy "branch", just exchange the current name
-with the wanted branch name (Example: v_3_0_branch for the 3.0 cvs tree).
+Note that source code in Git is development quality, and may not be stable or
+well tested.
-It is also strongly recommended to not run Privoxy as root. You should
-configure/install/run Privoxy as an unprivileged user, preferably by creating a
-"privoxy" 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
-adduser, but the command syntax may vary from platform to platform).
+It is strongly recommended to not run Privoxy as root. You should configure/
+install/run Privoxy as an unprivileged user, preferably by creating a "privoxy"
+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 adduser,
+but the command syntax may vary from platform to platform).
/etc/passwd might then look like:
Some binary packages may do this for you.
-Then, to build from either unpacked tarball or CVS source:
+Then, to build from either unpacked tarball or Git checkout:
- autoheader
- autoconf
- ./configure # (--help to see options)
- make # (the make from GNU, sometimes called gmake)
- su # Possibly required
- make -n install # (to see where all the files will go)
- make -s install # (to really install, -s to silence output)
+ autoheader
+ autoconf
+ ./configure # (--help to see options)
+ make # (the make from GNU, sometimes called gmake)
+ su # Possibly required
+ make -n install # (to see where all the files will go)
+ make -s install # (to really install, -s to silence output)
Using GNU make, you can have the first four steps automatically done for you by
just typing:
easily bypass the proxy (e.g. "Go There Anyway"), or alter their own
configurations, configure like this:
- ./configure --disable-toggle --disable-editor --disable-force
+ ./configure --disable-toggle --disable-editor --disable-force
-Then build as above. In Privoxy 3.0.7 and later, all of these options can also
-be disabled through the configuration file.
+Note that all of these options can also be disabled through the configuration
+file.
WARNING: If installing as root, the install will fail unless a non-root user or
group is specified, or a privoxy user and group already exist on the system. If
Alternately, you can specify user and group on the make command line, but be
sure both already exist:
- make -s install USER=privoxy GROUP=privoxy
+ make -s install USER=privoxy GROUP=privoxy
The default installation path for make install is /usr/local. This may of
course be customized with the various ./configure path options. If you are