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Can you give us some configuration details. I wouldn't mind trying it out.

Actually all the info is in the package, a minimal polipo/config file should contain these lines:

Code:

daemonise=true

logFile=/some/dir/some.log

proxyAddress=123.456.789.123

proxyPort=31337

allowedClients=123.456.789.0/24

socksParentProxy=123.456.789.123:8118

socksProxyType=socks4a

Example asserting TOR and Polipo reside on the same host with IP = "123.456.789.123" and subnet 123.456.789.0/24.

Thanks unSpawn. Your info is very helpful.

I'm running Polipo/privoxy/tor and have noticed quite an increase in speed with some loss of stability though(probably improper setup on my part). I'm hesitant to run polipo alone with tor, not really understanding the settings but I'm sure it would be much faster.

I installed privoxy, but tor is unable to install. I get this message:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
tor: Depends: tsocks but it is not installable

tsocks is not installable? I am thinking I require tsocks, but why would it be uninstallable? What do I do?

If theres no Tsocks package then get the tarball from tsocks.sourceforge.net?

Post your /etc/apt/sources.list. For a reason I can't fathom, Etch ships with a rather non-useful sources.list. So if you post what you have we can tell you what to add to it (I suspect that you only have CD-ROM and the noreply.org repository in there).

deb http://mirror.noreply.org/pub/tor edgy main
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy main restricted
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-updates main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security main restricted

This is my sources list. What should I add?

ack !!!! Why are you using Ubuntu repositories on Debian!? Yes, Ubuntu is based on Debian, and yes, you can probably get away with it for a while, but that's just asking for trouble.

..are you really running Debian?

If you're actually running Ubuntu then say so, and add the following to sources.list:

Code:

# Ubuntu community supported packages

# GPG key: 437D05B5

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy universe multiverse 

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-updates universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security universe multiverse

If you're actually running Debian, you SHOULD have lines like the following, though I have no idea what happens if you switch from Ubuntu repositories to Debian repositories, so proceed carefully:

Code:

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free

deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free

Either way, then do an "apt-get update", and you should be able to install tor and tsocks.

tsocks is in "universe" in Ubuntu and "main" in Debian.

I modified my repositories like they should be, and a torchecker website noted that I was using a tor exit node. Once I edited to repositories, tor and privoxy were succesfully installed. I would like to give out a big thanks to everyone who participated in this thread to help me.

The Linux noobs of today will teach the Linux noobs of tomorrow! :)