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+ <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="INSTALLATION" id="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=
+ "http://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" id=
+ "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" id=
+ "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" id=
+ "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" id=
+ "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" id=
+ "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" 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">
+ <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>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-TBZ" id=
+ "INSTALLATION-TBZ">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>
+
+ <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>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>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="INSTALLATION-SOURCE" id=
+ "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=
+ "http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118&package_id=10571"
+ 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=
+ "http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=11118" 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>
+
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