[ HELPFUL TIP ] Installing Tor in Linux Lite 3.x Series

[bitsnpcs]

Thank You for making the tutorial Jerry 

[LL-user]

Thanks, Jerry! Highly appreciated

[Jerry]

What is Tor?

Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location.

This installs the Tor service, not to be confused with the Tor Web Browser. The Tor Web Browser is a quick and easy way to browse the Internet safely, the Tor service installs directly to your system, allowing you to run a variety of applications through the Tor network. See - https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWTO#Howtotorifyspecificprograms for how to run programs through Tor.

Edit your sources list:

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sudo leafpad /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the following to the bottom of the file, save and close:

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deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org xenial main
deb-src http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org xenial main
Open a terminal, run the following 2 commands separately:

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gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89

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gpg --export A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89 | sudo apt-key add -
Update and install:

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tor deb.torproject.org-keyring
Check the service is running:

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ps aux | grep /tor
Your output should be similar to:

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jerry@z800:~$ ps aux | grep /tor
debian-+  3835  0.1  0.2  81756 36032 ?        Ss   20:20   0:01 /usr/bin/tor --defaults-torrc /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc -f /etc/tor/torrc --RunAsDaemon 0
jerry    11132  0.0  0.0  14224  1004 pts/2    S+   20:36   0:00 grep /tor
jerry@z800:~$

Open Firefox (other browsers instructions will be similar)

Open menu Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Network > Settings.
Select Manual proxy configuration.
Enter SOCKS Host: 127.0.0.1 and Port: 9050 and select SOCKS v5 and clear all text in No proxy for: text box.
Press OK.



In Firefox:

about:config

Search for:

remote_dns

double click 'network.proxy.socks_remote_dns' and change to 'true'.

Done.