X-Git-Url: http://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=1e6df14e6e40719955dd0bc32c5e6e5590c8b636;hp=f7763cf18725c21876229386734c8de73f73d6a5;hb=66b1e23830d60ea98b0ba2ac5644ef24a45f9c55;hpb=bbfe461fae901a7daf3bae1e3087c02f98a24deb diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index f7763cf1..1e6df14e 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ * 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 @@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ * USA * *********************************************************************/ - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -40,29 +39,25 @@ compiler like gcc are required. When building from a source tarball, first unpack the source: - tar xzvf privoxy-3.0.21-stable-src.tar.gz - cd privoxy-3.0.21-stable + tar xzvf privoxy-3.0.30-stable-src.tar.gz + cd privoxy-3.0.30-stable -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: +To build the development version, you can get the source code by doing: - 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 + cd + git clone https://www.privoxy.org/git/privoxy.git -This will create a directory named current/, which will contain the source -tree. +This will create a directory named /privoxy/, 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). +Note that source code in Git is development quality, and may not be stable or +well tested. -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: @@ -74,7 +69,7 @@ And then /etc/group, like: 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 @@ -97,8 +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