* 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
+ * by and Copyright (C) 1997 Anonymous Coders and
* Junkbusters Corporation. http://www.junkbusters.com
*
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it
* and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
* Public License as published by the Free Software
* Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
* The GNU General Public License should be included with
* this file. If not, you can view it at
* http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html
- * or write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
- * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301,
+ * or write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+ * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301,
* USA
*
*********************************************************************/
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When building from a source tarball, first unpack the source:
- tar xzvf privoxy-3.0.15-beta-src.tar.gz
- cd privoxy-3.0.15-beta
+ tar xzvf privoxy-3.0.30-stable-src.tar.gz
+ cd privoxy-3.0.30-stable
+To build the development version, you can get the source code by doing:
-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:
+ cd <root-dir>
+ git clone https://www.privoxy.org/git/privoxy.git
- 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
+This will create a directory named <root-dir>/privoxy/, which will contain the
+source tree.
+Note that source code in Git is development quality, and may not be stable or
+well tested.
-This will create a directory named current/, 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).
-
-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:
privoxy:*:7777:7777:privoxy proxy:/no/home:/no/shell
-
And then /etc/group, like:
privoxy:*:7777:
-
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
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:
make
-
in the freshly downloaded or unpacked source directory.
To build an executable with security enhanced features so that users cannot
./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
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
doing an install to anywhere besides /usr/local, be sure to set the appropriate
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