X-Git-Url: http://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=1e6df14e6e40719955dd0bc32c5e6e5590c8b636;hp=34f654a0ff0a19399fb82431d776097110d51912;hb=31265b1b2d8f5b81cbde0fcada6271d800430c59;hpb=0e2689b01344ca56965bd0a94ba5da76a42626df diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 34f654a0..1e6df14e 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -5,13 +5,13 @@ * 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 @@ -26,12 +26,11 @@ * 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 * *********************************************************************/ - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -40,45 +39,37 @@ compiler like gcc are required. 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 + 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 /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 @@ -88,13 +79,11 @@ Then, to build from either unpacked tarball or CVS source: 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 @@ -103,9 +92,8 @@ configurations, configure like this: ./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 @@ -124,7 +112,6 @@ sure both already exist: 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