*
* Purpose : INSTALL file to help with installing from source.
*
- * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2006 the SourceForge
- * Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/
+ * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001-2009 the
+ * 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/copyleft/gpl.html
- * or write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
- * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301,
+ * 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,
* USA
*
*********************************************************************/
When building from a source tarball, first unpack the source:
- tar xzvf privoxy-3.0.5-beta-src* [.tgz or .tar.gz]
- cd privoxy-3.0.5-beta
+ tar xzvf privoxy-3.0.25-beta-src.tar.gz
+ cd privoxy-3.0.25-beta
For retrieving the current CVS sources, you'll need a CVS client installed.
-Note that sources from CVS are typicially development quality, and may not be
+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:
- 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
+ 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 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, and instead it is
-suggested to create a "privoxy" user and group for this purpose. See your local
-documentation for the correct command line to do this.
+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).
/etc/passwd might then look like:
- privoxy:*:7777:7777:privoxy proxy:/no/home:/no/shell
+ privoxy:*:7777:7777:privoxy proxy:/no/home:/no/shell
And then /etc/group, like:
- privoxy:*:7777:
+ privoxy:*:7777:
Some binary packages may do this for you.
Then, to build from either unpacked tarball or CVS source:
- autoheader
- autoconf
- ./configure # (--help to see options)
- make # (the make from GNU, sometimes called gmake)
- su
- 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)
-If you have GNU make, you can have the first four steps automatically done for
-you by just typing:
+Using GNU make, you can have the first four steps automatically done for you by
+just typing:
- make
+ make
in the freshly downloaded or unpacked source directory.
+To build an executable with security enhanced features so that users cannot
+easily bypass the proxy (e.g. "Go There Anyway"), or alter their own
+configurations, configure like this:
+
+ ./configure --disable-toggle --disable-editor --disable-force
+
+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
a non-root user is specified, and no group, then the installation will try to
configure accepts --with-user and --with-group options for setting user and
group ownership of the configuration files (which need to be writable by the
-daemon). The specified user must already exist. When starting Privoxy, it
-should be run as this same user to insure write access to configuration and log
-files.
+daemon). The specified user must already exist. When starting Privoxy, it must
+be run as this same user to insure write access to configuration and log files!
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
-doing a root install to anywhere else besides /usr/local, be sure to set the
-appropriate paths with the correct configure options (./configure --help).
+doing an install to anywhere besides /usr/local, be sure to set the appropriate
+paths with the correct configure options (./configure --help). Non-privileged
+users must of course have write access permissions to wherever the target
+installation is going.
If you do install to /usr/local, the install will use sysconfdir=$prefix/etc/
privoxy by default. All other destinations, and the direct usage of
program that uses a file with the "config" name, and thus makes /usr/local/etc
cleaner.
-If installing to /usr/local, the docs will go by default to $prefix/share/doc.
-But if this directory doesn't exist, it will then try $prefix/doc and install
-there before creating a new $prefix/share/doc just for Privoxy.
+If installing to /usr/local, the documentation will go by default to $prefix/
+share/doc. But if this directory doesn't exist, it will then try $prefix/doc
+and install there before creating a new $prefix/share/doc just for Privoxy.
Again, if the installs goes to /usr/local, the localstatedir (ie: var/) will
default to /var instead of $prefix/var so the logs will go to /var/log/privoxy
/, and the pid file will be created in /var/run/privoxy.pid.
make install will attempt to set the correct values in config (main
-configuration file). You may want to check this to make sure all values are
-correct. If appropriate, an init script will be installed, but it is up to the
-user to determine how and where to start Privoxy. The init script should be
-checked for correct paths and values, if anything other than a default install
-is done.
-
-If install finds previous versions of any local configuration files, these will
-not be overwritten, and the new ones will be installed with a "new" extension.
-default.action, default.filter, and standard.action will be overwritten. You
-will then need to manually update the other installed configuration files as
-needed. All template files will be overwritten. If you have customized, local
-templates, you should save these first. If a previous version of Privoxy is
-already running, you will have to restart it manually.
+configuration file). You should check this to make sure all values are correct.
+If appropriate, an init script will be installed, but it is up to the user to
+determine how and where to start Privoxy. The init script should be checked for
+correct paths and values, if anything other than a default install is done.
+
+If install finds previous versions of local configuration files, most of these
+will not be overwritten, and the new ones will be installed with a "new"
+extension. default.action and default.filter will be overwritten. You will then
+need to manually update the other installed configuration files as needed. The
+default template files will be overwritten. If you have customized, local
+templates, these should be stored safely in a separate directory and defined in
+config by the "templdir" directive. It is of course wise to always back-up any
+important configuration files "just in case". If a previous version of Privoxy
+is already running, you will have to restart it manually.
For more detailed instructions on how to build Redhat RPMs, Windows
self-extracting installers, building on platforms with special requirements
projects / privoxy.git / blobdiff