How To Browse Internet Anonymously Using Tor In Fedora

Applicable to Fedora Versions

Tested on Fedora 8. Should be compatible with other releases as well.

Doing the Work

1. Open the terminal and login as root.
2. Install Tor and Privoxy
   

   yum install tor privoxy -y

3. Edit /etc/privoxy/config and add the following line.
   

   forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .
   

   Notice the "." in the end

4. Start Privoxy and Tor service.
   

   service privoxy restart
   service tor restart

5. Setting up Firefox.
   
   • Download Tor Button Firefox addon, install it and restart Firefox.
6. Setting up Pidgin.
   
   • Goto Accounts --> Manage, Select the account you want to anonymize
   • Click Modify
   • Goto Advanced Tab, Under Proxy Options select proxy type SOCKS 5
   • Enter 127.0.0.1 for the host and 9050 for the port
7. Setting Up IRC clients
   
   • In the IRC clients, replace irc.freenode.net with mejokbp2brhw4omd.onion as the server
     http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml#tor
     
8. Setting Up Azureus
   
   • Goto Tools --> Options --> Connection --> Proxy Options
   • Enable Proxy in Tracker Communication and Peer Communication
   • Check the box "I have a SOCKS proxy"
     
   • Set Host to 127.0.0.1 and Port 9050
   • Set SOCKS version to V5
     
     

   Tor is just not ready yet for heavy p2p traffic, so running p2p applications on Tor network is not recommended.

9. Test Tor
   
   • Turn on Tor in Firefox using the Tor Button (located in Firefox's statusbar)
   • visit this link http://torcheck.xenobite.eu/

More Information

Disclaimer

We test this stuff on our own machines, really we do. But you may run into problems, if you do, come to #fedora on irc.freenode.net

Added Reading

• http://www.torproject.org/
• http://www.privoxy.org
• http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ
  
• http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Anonymity_with_Tor_and_Privoxy