Installing tor from source on CentOS 5
Written by Chris on August 29, 2007 – 10:28 pm -As usal with CentOS I can up against a few problems installing tor from source on CentOS 5 this is basically a list of those issues with steps to overcome.
First of all after downloading tor-0.1.2.16 extracting the tarball and typing ./configure I got a message saying no linkable libevent was found.
I tried installing this via yum but without much luck so decided to install it from source too - however this was more difficult than it seemed as the current version is libevent-1.3d but tor-0.1.2.16 requires a feature of libevent that only exists in version 1.3a so after going back and installing all previous versions until I found the one that worked.
After that I was able to configure, make and make install tor without any trouble
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October 17th, 2007 at 8:27 am
I think this is wrong. I configured libevent as –prefix ‘ed and i linked to it and it worked great. i think its permissions or something.
January 22nd, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Also, you could use the Dag repos. He builds tor specifically for centos/el5 (and just about everything else you might need on a workstation centos5 install)
http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/tor/
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Hey Pau1 - Thanks for that
Dag’s stuff is actually something I do use already (can’t remember if it was configured on this machine when I did this though) and I’d also recommend it to anyone looking to expand their package lists
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:26 pm
I compiled using
./configure –with-libevent-dir=/usr/local/lib
(your path to the lib may vary)
For some reason tor was unable to determine the path to libevent, and my libevent is the latest.