How to run Tor from USB with Linux (Kubuntu 6.10)

[Ringo Kamens]

Here's what I'm thinking for the script. You would have all the deb
files and their dependencies in a folder. Then have the script do:
dpkg tor.deb
dpkg vidalia.deb
dpkg privoxy.deb

or...
cd tor
./configure
make
cd ..
cd vidalia
./configure
make

etc. You get the idea. Unfortunately, the charger for my Linux laptop
fried last week so I can't provide a working example. Basically, the
tor autoinstall script would just take the data from your usb drive
and compile/install it to your hd which you would do every time you
needed it on your system and had wiped your drive/restored a backup.
This would probably require higher user rights however. I *know* there
is a better solution but I don't know the inner workings on tor or
where all the data goes so this is the best suggestion I can provide
at the moment. This is just a quick fix until somebody more
experienced can reply to your question (and I know you're out there!)
Comrade Ringo Kamens

On 3/10/07, light zoo <lightzook at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Ringo Kamens <2600denver at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It depends. When you do apt-get install tor which
> > dependencies did it download?
>
> I didn't apt-get, I built Tor from source.
>
> > You'll need to find the deb packages for those
> > dependencies and also copy them to the flash drive.
>
> I am planing on running the USB from my Kubuntu OS.  I
> assume that I could install the Tor dependencies on
> the HDD...if there are any to install which are not
> present by default in Kubuntu-desktop 6.10 that is.
>
> I was under the impression that Tor dependencies
> (OpenSSL?, etc) are installed on the HDD and Tor stuff
> (Tor, torrc, tor-resolve, source, etc) could be placed
> onto the USB.
>
> I intend to install Tor, Vidalia and Polipo onto my
> USB.
>
> Here's a neat script to find -dev and regular
> dependencies for a source.  This script is generally
> used before building a .deb package but could be
> useful for Tor on a USB:
> ----------------------------------
>       strace -f -o /tmp/log ./configure
>       # or make instead of ./configure, if the
> package doesn't use autoconf
>       for x in `dpkg -S $(grep open /tmp/log|\
>                           perl -pe 's!.*
> open\(\"([^\"]*).*!$1!' |\
>                           grep "^/"| sort | uniq|\
>                           grep -v
> "^\(/tmp\|/dev\|/proc\)" ) 2>/dev/null|\
>                           cut -f1 -d":"| sort |
> uniq`; \
>             do \
>               echo -n "$x (>=" `dpkg -s $x|grep
> ^Version|cut -f2 -d":"` "), "; \
>             done
> ---------------------------------
>
> > The best course of action might just to be to have
> > a bash script on your flash drive that
> > automatically installs it.
>
> I do not understand what you mean in the above
> sentence.  The script would install what, Tor?  Do you
> mean the batch would install Tor onto the USB?  Could
> you post an example?
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
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