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tor

So copper.unitinu.net is now running a Tor relay. Since there's nothing else running on that box, Tor is happily soaking up ten megabits a second. How did I do it, you ask?

Easy!

First I downloaded the tor and libevent sources.

[root@copper ~]#wget http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.3e.tar.gz
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[root@copper ~]#wget http://www.torproject.org/dist/tor-0.1.2.19.tar.gz
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Then I unpacked the archives, ran the makefiles, etc. But tor errored out during configuration!

checking whether we need extra options to link libevent... configure: error: Found linkable libevent in (system), but it doesn't run, even with -R. Maybe specify another using --with-libevent-dir?
[root@copper tor-0.1.2.19]#


Since libevent installed correctly, I guessed that tor couldn't find the libraries. Googling the error message googlewhacked on another fellow with the same problem, which he solved by setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/local/lib. So I, you know, did that.

[root@copper tor-0.1.2.19]# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
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[root@copper tor-0.1.2.19]# ./configure && make
output removed, but it worked! too bad make doesn't give a completion message.


That was easy! Kinda.