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<h1>Running the <a href="<page index>">Tor</a> client on Linux/BSD/Unix</h1>
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<h2>Note that these are the installation instructions for running a
Tor client. The easiest way to do this is to simply download the <a
href="<page projects/torbrowser>">Tor Browser Bundle</a> and you are
done.
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<h2><a class="anchor" href="#installing">Step One: Download and Install Tor</a></h2>
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The latest release of Tor can be found on the <a
href="<page download/download>">download</a> page. We have packages for Debian,
Red Hat, Gentoo, *BSD, etc there too. If you're
using Ubuntu, don't use the default packages: use <a
href="<page docs/debian>#ubuntu">our deb repository</a> instead.
Similarly, CentOS / Fedora / OpenSUSE users should use <a href="<page
docs/rpms>">our rpm repository</a> instead.
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<p>If you're building from source, first install <a
href="http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/">libevent</a>, and
make sure you have openssl and zlib (including the -devel packages if
applicable). Then run:<br>
<tt>tar xzf tor-<version-stable>.tar.gz; cd tor-<version-stable></tt><br>
<tt>./configure && make</tt><br>
Now you can run tor as <tt>src/or/tor</tt>, or you can run <tt>make install</tt>
(as root if necessary) to install it into /usr/local/, and then you can
start it just by running <tt>tor</tt>.
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<p>Tor comes configured as a client by default. It uses a built-in
default configuration file, and most people won't need to change any of
the settings. Tor is now installed.
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