commit 5134510306dddc923a792e7e26d896564433ae2c Author: Ondrej Mikle <ondrej.mikle@gmail.com> Date: Tue Jul 5 22:09:31 2016 +0200 Direct RPM users to Fedora/EPEL packages --- docs/en/rpms.wml | 100 ++----------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 97 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/en/rpms.wml b/docs/en/rpms.wml index 158f9fa..7d9c3f3 100644 --- a/docs/en/rpms.wml +++ b/docs/en/rpms.wml @@ -15,106 +15,12 @@ linux distributions.</a></h2> <br> - <p><strong>Do not</strong> use the packages in the native repositories. They are - frequently out of date. That means you'll be missing stability and - security fixes. - </p> - - <p> - You'll need to set up our package repository before you can fetch - Tor. Repositories contain i686 and x86_64 builds. Assuming yum, in - /etc/yum.repos.d/, create a file called - torproject.repo. Edit this file with the following information: - </p> - - <h3>Fedora 22/23 and EL6/7 packages</h3> + <h3>Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux packages</h3> - <p>For Fedora 22, Fedora 23, RHEL 6, RHEL 7 (and clones), use following - repo file - substitute DISTRIBUTION with one of the following: fc/22, fc/23, - el/6, el/7 according to your distribution. - </p> - -<pre>[tor] -name=Tor repo -enabled=1 -baseurl=https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/rpm/DISTRIBUTION/$basearch/ -gpgcheck=1 -gpgkey=https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/rpm/RPM-GPG-KEY-torproject.org.asc -repo_gpgcheck=1 - -[tor-source] -name=Tor source repo -enabled=1 -autorefresh=0 -baseurl=https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/rpm/DISTRIBUTION/SRPMS -gpgcheck=1 -gpgkey=https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/rpm/RPM-GPG-KEY-torproject.org.asc -repo_gpgcheck=1 -</pre> - <p> - The key's fingerprint should be: + <p>Use native Fedora packages for Fedora distribution or <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL">EPEL</a> + packages for distribitons derived from RHEL. </p> -<pre>E273 44C4 BD24 BEDF E4F4 C741 803F EFB7 F4B8 5E0F</pre> - <h3>Name clash warning</h3> - - <p>There is identically named 'tor' package in the EPEL and Fedora - repositories. Due to this unfortunate name clash, the packages might - "update over one another", depending on patchversion. Solution is to use - <tt>Exclude=tor</tt> line in the relevant <tt>/etc/yum.repos.d/</tt> - file. - </p> - - <p>E.g. you may exclude EPEL's Tor package by putting the mentioned exclude - line under [epel] section in <tt>/etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo</tt>. - For Fedora, you usually need that exclude in fedora.repo and - fedora-updates.repo file. - </p> - - <h3>Package installation and running</h3> - - <p> - Once you have the repo file, install Tor using (yum will ask about the - key's fingerprint the first time): - </p> -<pre>yum install tor</pre> - - <p> - Start Tor using: - </p> -<pre>service tor start</pre> - - <p> - Now Tor is installed and running. Move on to <a href="<page - docs/tor-doc-unix>#using">step two</a> of the "Tor on Linux/Unix" - instructions. - </p> - - <p style="font-size: small"> - The DNS name <code>deb.torproject.org</code> is actually a set of independent - servers in a DNS round-robin configuration. If for some reason you cannot - use it, you might be able to access one of the individual servers - instead. Try - <code>deb-master.torproject.org</code>, - <code>mirror.netcologne.de</code> or - <code>tor.mirror.youam.de</code>. - </p> - - <hr> - - <hr> - - <h2>Alpha/development packages</a></h2> - <br> - - <p> - There is a repository that contains packages for latest alpha branch of Tor. - If you'd like to experiment with them, use one of the above repo files, just - change the baseurl to (similarly to previous section, substitute - DISTRIBUTION based on your distribution; for source rpms use "SRPMS" instead - of $basearch): - </p> -<pre>baseurl=https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/rpm/tor-testing/DISTRIBUTION/$basearch/</pre> <a id="source"></a> <h2><a class="anchor" href="#source">Building from source</a></h2>