Vidalia on Ubuntu or Debian
Do not use the packages in Ubuntu's universe. They are unmaintained and out of date. That means you'll be missing stability and security fixes.
You'll need to set up our package repository before you can fetch
Vidalia. First, you need to figure out the name of your distribution. If
you're using Ubuntu 9.10 or 10.04, it's "karmic", while 9.04 is "jaunty",
8.10 is "intrepid", and 8.04 is "hardy". If you're using Debian
Etch, it's "etch", and Debian Lenny is "lenny". Then add this line to your
/etc/apt/sources.list
file:
deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org <DISTRIBUTION> mainwhere you substitute the above word (etch, lenny, sid, karmic, jaunty, intrepid, hardy) in place of <DISTRIBUTION>.
Then add the gpg key used to sign the packages by running the following commands at your command prompt:
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv 886DDD89 gpg --export A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89 | sudo apt-key add -Now refresh your sources and install Vidalia by running the following commands at your command prompt:
apt-get update apt-get install vidalia
Now Vidalia is installed and running. Move on to step two of the "Vidalia on Linux/Unix" instructions.
The DNS name deb.torproject.org
is actually a set of independent
servers in a DNS round robin configuration. If you for some reason cannot
access it you might try to use the name of one of its part instead. Try
deb-master.torproject.org
,
mirror.netcologne.de
or
vidalia.mirror.youam.de
.
Building from source
If you want to build your own debs from source you must first add an appropriate deb-src line to sources.list.
deb-src http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org <DISTRIBUTION> mainYou also need to install the necessary packages to build your own debs and the packages needed to build Vidalia:
apt-get install build-essential fakeroot devscripts qt4-dev-tools qt4-designer libqt4-dev g++ cmake apt-get build-dep vidaliaThen you can build Vidalia in ~/debian-packages:
mkdir ~/debian-packages; cd ~/debian-packages apt-get source vidalia cd vidalia-* debuild -rfakeroot -uc -us cd ..Now you can install the new package:
sudo dpkg -i vidalia_*.deb
Now Vidalia is installed and running. Move on to step two of the "Vidalia on Linux/Unix" instructions.
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