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<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 EMPHASIS c2">be sure to backup your old
- configuration if it is valuable to you.</span> See the <a href=
+ <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">
<p>How to install the binary packages depends on your operating
system:</p>
- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="INSTALLATION-PACK-RPM" id=
- "INSTALLATION-PACK-RPM">2.1.1. Red Hat and Fedora RPMs</a></h3>
-
- <p>RPMs can be installed with <tt class="LITERAL">rpm -Uvh
- privoxy-3.0.19-1.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 <span class="emphasis EMPHASIS c2">not</span> 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.</p>
-
- <p>If you have problems with failed dependencies, try rebuilding the
- SRC RPM: <tt class="LITERAL">rpm --rebuild
- privoxy-3.0.19-1.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 if found, before installing <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.</p>
- </div>
-
<div class="SECT3">
<h3 class="SECT3"><a name="INSTALLATION-DEB" id=
- "INSTALLATION-DEB">2.1.2. Debian and Ubuntu</a></h3>
+ "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
<div class="SECT3">
<h3 class="SECT3"><a name="INSTALLATION-PACK-WIN" id=
- "INSTALLATION-PACK-WIN">2.1.3. Windows</a></h3>
+ "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
"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 EMPHASIS c2">service</span>.</p>
+ "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 c3">--install</tt>[:<tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE c3">service_name</tt>]</p>
+ <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>--install</i></tt>[:<tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>service_name</i></tt>]</p>
- <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE c3">--uninstall</tt>[:<tt class=
- "REPLACEABLE c3">service_name</tt>]</p>
+ <p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>--uninstall</i></tt>[:<tt class=
+ "REPLACEABLE"><i>service_name</i></tt>]</p>
</dd>
</dl>
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permitted to write to its log and configuration files.</p>
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- <div class="SECT3">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="INSTALLATION-PACK-BINTGZ" id=
- "INSTALLATION-PACK-BINTGZ">2.1.4. Solaris</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.</p>
- </div>
-
<div class="SECT3">
<h3 class="SECT3"><a name="INSTALLATION-OS2" id=
- "INSTALLATION-OS2">2.1.5. OS/2</a></h3>
+ "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=
<div class="SECT3">
<h3 class="SECT3"><a name="INSTALLATION-MAC" id=
- "INSTALLATION-MAC">2.1.6. Mac OS X</a></h3>
-
- <p>Unzip the downloaded file (you can either double-click on the zip
- file icon from the Finder, or from the desktop if you downloaded it
- there). Then, double-click on the package installer icon and follow
- the installation process.</p>
-
- <p>The privoxy service will automatically start after a successful
- installation (in addition to every time your computer starts up). To
- prevent the privoxy service from automatically starting when your
- computer starts up, remove or rename the folder named <tt class=
- "LITERAL">/Library/StartupItems/Privoxy</tt>.</p>
+ "INSTALLATION-MAC">2.1.4. Mac OS X</a></h3>
- <p>To manually start or stop the privoxy service, use the Privoxy
- Utility for Mac OS X. This application controls the privoxy service
- (e.g. starting and stopping the service as well as uninstalling the
- software).</p>
+ <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">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="INSTALLATION-AMIGA" id=
- "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>
+ <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">
- <h3 class="SECT3"><a name="INSTALLATION-TBZ" id=
- "INSTALLATION-TBZ">2.1.8. FreeBSD</a></h3>
+ <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>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>
+ <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>If you don't use the ports, you can fetch and install the package
- with <tt class="LITERAL">pkg_add -r privoxy</tt>.</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>The port skeleton and the package can also be downloaded from the
- <a href=
- "https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118"
- target="_top">File Release Page</a>, but there's no reason to use
- them unless you're interested in the beta releases which are only
- available there.</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="INSTALLATTION-GENTOO" id=
- "INSTALLATTION-GENTOO">2.1.9. Gentoo</a></h3>
-
- <p>Gentoo source packages (Ebuilds) for <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> are contained in the Gentoo Portage Tree
- (they are not on the download page, but there is a Gentoo section,
- where you can see when a new <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- Version is added to the Portage Tree).</p>
-
- <p>Before installing <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> under
- Gentoo just do first <tt class="LITERAL">emerge --sync</tt> to get
- the latest changes from the Portage tree. With <tt class=
- "LITERAL">emerge privoxy</tt> you install the latest version.</p>
-
- <p>Configuration files are in <tt class="FILENAME">/etc/privoxy</tt>,
- the documentation is in <tt class=
- "FILENAME">/usr/share/doc/privoxy-3.0.19</tt> and the Log directory
- is in <tt class="FILENAME">/var/log/privoxy</tt>.</p>
+ <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>
<p>When building from a source tarball, first unpack the source:</p>
- <table class="c4" border="0" width="100%">
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
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- tar xzvf privoxy-3.0.19-stable-src.tar.gz
- cd privoxy-3.0.19-stable
+ tar xzvf privoxy-3.0.25-beta-src.tar.gz
+ cd privoxy-3.0.25-beta
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check the Sourceforge documentation, which might give commands
like:</p>
- <table class="c4" border="0" width="100%">
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td>
<pre class="SCREEN">
<p><tt class="FILENAME">/etc/passwd</tt> might then look like:</p>
- <table class="c4" border="0" width="100%">
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td>
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<p>And then <tt class="FILENAME">/etc/group</tt>, like:</p>
- <table class="c4" border="0" width="100%">
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td>
<pre class="SCREEN">
<p>Then, to build from either unpacked tarball or CVS source:</p>
- <table class="c4" border="0" width="100%">
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td>
<pre class="SCREEN">
<p>Using GNU <b class="COMMAND">make</b>, you can have the first four
steps automatically done for you by just typing:</p>
- <table class="c4" border="0" width="100%">
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
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<pre class="SCREEN">
Anyway"</span>), or alter their own configurations, <b class=
"COMMAND">configure</b> like this:</p>
- <table class="c4" border="0" width="100%">
+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
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- <p>Then build as above. In Privoxy 3.0.7 and later, all of these
- options can also be disabled through the configuration file.</p>
+ <p>Note that all of these options can also be disabled through the
+ configuration file.</p>
- <p><span class="emphasis EMPHASIS c2">WARNING:</span> If installing as
- root, the install will fail unless a non-root user or group is
- specified, or a <tt class="LITERAL">privoxy</tt> user and group already
- exist on the system. If a non-root user is specified, and no group,
- then the installation will try to also use a group of the same name as
- <span class="QUOTE">"user"</span>. If a group is specified (and no
- user), then the support files will be installed as writable by that
- group, and owned by the user running the installation.</p>
+ <p><span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">WARNING:</i></span> If
+ installing as root, the install will fail unless a non-root user or
+ group is specified, or a <tt class="LITERAL">privoxy</tt> user and
+ group already exist on the system. If a non-root user is specified, and
+ no group, then the installation will try to also use a group of the
+ same name as <span class="QUOTE">"user"</span>. If a group is specified
+ (and no user), then the support files will be installed as writable by
+ that group, and owned by the user running the installation.</p>
<p><b class="COMMAND">configure</b> accepts <tt class=
"LITERAL">--with-user</tt> and <tt class="LITERAL">--with-group</tt>
options for setting user and group ownership of the configuration files
(which need to be writable by the daemon). The specified <span class=
- "emphasis EMPHASIS c2">user must already exist</span>. When starting
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, it must be run as this same
- user to insure write access to configuration and log files!</p>
+ "emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">user must already exist</i></span>. When
+ starting <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>, it must be run as
+ this same user to insure write access to configuration and log
+ files!</p>
<p>Alternately, you can specify <tt class="LITERAL">user</tt> and
<tt class="LITERAL">group</tt> on the <b class="COMMAND">make</b>
command line, but be sure both already exist:</p>
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+ <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
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<p>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 <span class="QUOTE">"new"</span> extension.
- default.action and default.filter <span class=
- "emphasis EMPHASIS c2">will be overwritten</span>. You will then need
- to manually update the other installed configuration files as needed.
- The default template files <span class=
- "emphasis EMPHASIS c2">will</span> be overwritten. If you have
- customized, local templates, these should be stored safely in a
- separate directory and defined in <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt> by
- the <span class="QUOTE">"templdir"</span> directive. It is of course
- wise to always back-up any important configuration files <span class=
- "QUOTE">"just in case"</span>. If a previous version of <span class=
+ default.action and default.filter <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">will be overwritten</i></span>. You will then need to
+ manually update the other installed configuration files as needed. The
+ default template files <span class="emphasis"><i class=
+ "EMPHASIS">will</i></span> be overwritten. If you have customized,
+ local templates, these should be stored safely in a separate directory
+ and defined in <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt> by the <span class=
+ "QUOTE">"templdir"</span> directive. It is of course wise to always
+ back-up any important configuration files <span class="QUOTE">"just in
+ case"</span>. If a previous version of <span class=
"APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is already running, you will have to
restart it manually.</p>
"INSTALLATION-KEEPUPDATED">2.3. Keeping your Installation
Up-to-Date</a></h2>
- <p>As user feedback comes in and development continues, we will make
- updated versions of both the main <a href="actions-file.html">actions
- file</a> (as a <a href=
- "http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118&release_id=103670"
- target="_top">separate package</a>) and the software itself (including
- the actions file) available for download.</p>
-
<p>If you wish to receive an email notification whenever we release
updates of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> or the actions
file, <a href=
<p>In order not to lose your personal changes and adjustments when
updating to the latest <tt class="LITERAL">default.action</tt> file we
- <span class="emphasis EMPHASIS c2">strongly recommend</span> that you
- use <tt class="LITERAL">user.action</tt> and <tt class=
- "LITERAL">user.filter</tt> for your local customizations of
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. See the <a href=
+ <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">strongly
+ recommend</i></span> that you use <tt class="LITERAL">user.action</tt>
+ and <tt class="LITERAL">user.filter</tt> for your local customizations
+
of <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. See the <a href=
"actions-file.html">Chapter on actions files</a> for details.</p>
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