Howto: Install and configure TOR+Privoxy on Fedora 10.

[xen_yasai]

1. Start the Terminal and login as root:

$ su -

2. Install TOR and Privoxy using YUM:

# yum -y install tor privoxy

3. Configure Privoxy.
Open the Privoxy config file:

# gedit /etc/privoxy/config

Copy/paste the following sample config from the TOR wiki in the config file:

# Tor listens as a SOCKS4a proxy here:
forward-socks4a / 127.0.0.1:9050 .
confdir /etc/privoxy
logdir /var/log/privoxy
actionsfile standard  # Internal purpose, recommended
actionsfile default   # Main actions file
actionsfile user      # User customizations
filterfile default.filter

# Don't log interesting things, only startup messages, warnings and errors
#logfile logfile
#jarfile jarfile
#debug   0    # show each GET/POST/CONNECT request
debug   4096 # Startup banner and warnings
debug   8192 # Errors - *we highly recommended enabling this*

user-manual /usr/share/doc/privoxy/user-manual
listen-address  127.0.0.1:8118
toggle  1
enable-remote-toggle 0
enable-edit-actions 0
enable-remote-http-toggle 0
buffer-limit 4096

Save and close the config file.

4. Start TOR and Privoxy by starting the Services application (System -> Administration -> Services).
Find TOR and Privoxy in the list; Enable and Start them both.

5. Install Torbutton for Firefox.

6. Click on the Torbutton and check that TOR is working.

Now you should have TOR running with Privoxy on your computer. If you want to highten your security even more with TOR, go the TOR project web site.

Source: http://randomoid.com/2009/01/18/howt...ret-happiness/