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How to install Tor on backtrack 5
# What is Tor ??
Tor is an open source Anonymous Internet tool. It protects your personal identification from tracking systems by changing the source IP address frequently. Application will create many virtual tunnels through the tor network.
# By default Tor is not integrated in BackTrack 5.

[# So Let's Start
I do not recommend just using TOR for your proxy. It's wise to layer your anonymity (Including your router, if you're working off a Desktop).


start. Open the Terminal.
step 1. #cd /etc/apt
#ls

step 2. #vi sources.list
step 3. Press 'i' on your keyboard.
step 4. Add this line at the bottom: deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org lucid main
step 5. Press ESC, type a colon, type wq and hit enter.
step 6. Run this command: gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv 886DDD89
step 7. Run this command: gpg --export A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89 | sudo apt-key add -
step 8. apt-get update
step 9. apt-get install tor tor-geoipdb
step 10. Download Tor Browser Bundle for Ubuntu (To your desktop). https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
step 11. cd Desktop
step 12. Download the architecture-appropriate file above, save it somewhere, then run one of the following two commands to extract the package archive:

tar -xvzf tor-browser-gnu-linux-i686-2.2.35-9-dev-LANG.tar.gz
or
tor-browser-gnu-linux-x86_64-2.2.35-9-dev-LANG.tar.gz

step 13. chown -R root:root ./tor-browser_en-US
step 14. Open the folder 'Tor-Browser_en-US"
step 15. Open the file 'start-tor-browser in gedit.
step 16. Find the line:
"if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
complain "The Tor Browser Bundle should not be run as root. Exiting."
exit 1

17. Change to:

if [ "`id -u`" -eq 1 ]; then
complain "The Tor Browser Bundle should not be run as root. Exiting."
exit 1

18. apt-get install polipo
19. cd /etc/polipo
20. mv config conf-backup.txt
21. Now Go here, copy all text:
22. vi config
23. Press 'i' on your keyboard.
24. Paste the text you just copied.
25. Press ESC, type a colon, type wq and hit enter.
26. service polipo start
27. service tor start
28. Start tor browser bundle (From the file on your desktop).
To run the Tor Browser Bundle, execute the start-tor-browser script:
# ./start-tor-browser


This will launch Vidalia and once that connects to Tor, it will launch Firefox. Do not unpack or run TBB as root
29. Done!

Wanna check it?

1. ps aux |grep polipo
2. netstat -ntl

Remember, polipo runs on port 8118, TOR runs on 9050.


Remember : Tor and polipo should automatically run when you start Backtrack:


So Dont Need To start tor Again and Again.

1. service tor start
2. service polipo start

Be sure to stop both when you need to update anything:


By giving Command:

1. service tor stop
2. service polipo stop

Thats All

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@clydey
Could you elaborate your question as it's very unreadable.

@OP
Credits goes to? And why are you posting a tutorial about BackTrack?

[w00t]

Why on earth are you removing the warning not to run tor as root?

[w00t]

So, rather than do the smart thing and run Tor under its own user as recommended, you disable the check?

[w00t]

There isn't any inherit risks in running tor as root, but since it's not a stable program, exploits will be found, and if the process can only use so much resources and access only some files, risks are marginalized.