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- 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-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>
-
- <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>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- tar xzvf privoxy-3.0.21-stable-src.tar.gz
- cd privoxy-3.0.21-stable
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>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:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- 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
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>This will create a directory named <tt class=
- "FILENAME">current/</tt>, which will contain the source tree.</p>
-
- <p>You can also check out any <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
- <span class="QUOTE">"branch"</span>, just exchange the <span class=
- "APPLICATION">current</span> name with the wanted branch name (Example:
- v_3_0_branch for the 3.0 cvs tree).</p>
-
- <p>It is also strongly recommended to not run <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as root. You should configure/install/run
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as an unprivileged user,
- preferably by creating a <span class="QUOTE">"privoxy"</span> 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
- <b class="COMMAND">adduser</b>, but the command syntax may vary from
- platform to platform).</p>
-
- <p><tt class="FILENAME">/etc/passwd</tt> might then look like:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- privoxy:*:7777:7777:privoxy proxy:/no/home:/no/shell
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>And then <tt class="FILENAME">/etc/group</tt>, like:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- privoxy:*:7777:
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Some binary packages may do this for you.</p>
-
- <p>Then, to build from either unpacked tarball or CVS source:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- 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)
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>Using GNU <b class="COMMAND">make</b>, you can have the first four
- steps automatically done for you by just typing:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- make
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>in the freshly downloaded or unpacked source directory.</p>
-
- <p>To build an executable with security enhanced features so that users
- cannot easily bypass the proxy (e.g. <span class="QUOTE">"Go There
- Anyway"</span>), or alter their own configurations, <b class=
- "COMMAND">configure</b> like this:</p>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- ./configure --disable-toggle --disable-editor --disable-force
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <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><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"><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>
-
- <table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%">
- <tr>
- <td>
- <pre class="SCREEN">
- make -s install USER=privoxy GROUP=privoxy
-</pre>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>The default installation path for <b class="COMMAND">make
- install</b> is <tt class="FILENAME">/usr/local</tt>. This may of course
- be customized with the various <b class="COMMAND">./configure</b> path
- options. If you are doing an install to anywhere besides <tt class=
- "FILENAME">/usr/local</tt>, be sure to set the appropriate paths with
- the correct configure options (<b class="COMMAND">./configure
- --help</b>). Non-privileged users must of course have write access
- permissions to wherever the target installation is going.</p>
-
- <p>If you do install to <tt class="FILENAME">/usr/local</tt>, the
- install will use <tt class=
- "LITERAL">sysconfdir=$prefix/etc/privoxy</tt> by default. All other
- destinations, and the direct usage of <tt class=
- "LITERAL">--sysconfdir</tt> flag behave like normal, i.e. will not add
- the extra <tt class="FILENAME">privoxy</tt> directory. This is for a
- safer install, as there may already exist another program that uses a
- file with the <span class="QUOTE">"config"</span> name, and thus makes
- <tt class="FILENAME">/usr/local/etc</tt> cleaner.</p>
-
- <p>If installing to <tt class="FILENAME">/usr/local</tt>, the
- documentation will go by default to <tt class=
- "FILENAME">$prefix/share/doc</tt>. But if this directory doesn't exist,
- it will then try <tt class="FILENAME">$prefix/doc</tt> and install
- there before creating a new <tt class="FILENAME">$prefix/share/doc</tt>
- just for <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.</p>
-
- <p>Again, if the installs goes to <tt class="FILENAME">/usr/local</tt>,
- the <tt class="LITERAL">localstatedir</tt> (ie: <tt class=
- "FILENAME">var/</tt>) will default to <tt class="FILENAME">/var</tt>
- instead of <tt class="LITERAL">$prefix/var</tt> so the logs will go to
- <tt class="FILENAME">/var/log/privoxy/</tt>, and the pid file will be
- created in <tt class="FILENAME">/var/run/privoxy.pid</tt>.</p>
-
- <p><b class="COMMAND">make install</b> will attempt to set the correct
- values in <tt class="FILENAME">config</tt> (main 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 <span class=
- "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>. The init script should be checked for
- correct paths and values, if anything other than a default install is
- done.</p>
-
- <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"><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>
-
- <p>For more detailed instructions on how to build Redhat RPMs, Windows
- self-extracting installers, building on platforms with special
- requirements etc, please consult the <a href=
- "http://www.privoxy.org/developer-manual/newrelease.html" target=
- "_top">developer manual</a>.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="SECT2">
- <h2 class="SECT2"><a name="INSTALLATION-KEEPUPDATED" id=
- "INSTALLATION-KEEPUPDATED">2.3. Keeping your Installation
- Up-to-Date</a></h2>
-
- <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=
- "http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ijbswa-announce/" target=
- "_top">subscribe to our announce mailing list</a>,
- ijbswa-announce@lists.sourceforge.net.</p>
-
- <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"><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>
- </div>
- </div>
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