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

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@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

--- Ringo Kamens <2600denver@xxxxxxxxx> 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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