how to make tor work in ubuntu 8.04
 

I can not make tor work, I tried a few ways and it did not worked.

What did you do?
What doesn't work?
Did you follow the quide on the website?
Do you just want to use tor or also be a exit node?
....

I installed tor from synaptic and my IP is shown on line when I go to places like - http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/index....dwidth&SO=Desc
I installed it from it's website and it is the same.
There is something that I am missing when I install Tor.

If you want to use tor in firefox, you also need to install privoxy
http://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-unix.html.en

Does it say you are using tor?
Take a look at /var/log/tor/log

I got Tor and privoxy installed on the machine and torbutton on my FF.
Fire fox popped a window teling "Torbutton on Firefox 3 is known to leak your timezone and livemaks via tor." and asking if I want to continue.
I did continued to find that the link http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/index....dwidth&SO=Desc tells me that I am not connected to Tor.
I could not found my way with configuration of Tor, it look too much of a Geek for me.
any simple way to make it work?

You need to start tor
/etc/init.d/tor start.
look in /var/log/tor/log for errormessages
Do you use a firewall?

I would suggest to go to

http://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-unix.html.en

and do the installation step by step

I use firestarter

look in /var/log/tor/log for errormessages
disable firestater to see if it connects to build a circuit

I tried with no firewall and it did not work, the Firefox had more problems.

Reading some thing on Open Source and free software I found TORPARK

and it working with WINE.

Thanks