Having tor installed will be just a waste of time. If you want to browse the web anonymously, then Tor Browser works great. So I recommend to install a packet manager like Macports or Homebrew and install tor with one of both. I doubt that the above instructions successfully build tor after installing all required libraries/packages/tools (which will probably mess your system) because they target Linux. You still can run it in the build folder using src/or/to Then tor won't be installed to /usr/local. Other packages - like mentioned above - are still needed. To run tor simply enter tor in the shell.Īlternatively you can skip the & make install and just run. You have to install additional packages like libevent, openssl and probably some other to build it successfully. You may have to prepend sudo to make install it. configure & make & make install to configure, make and install tor. Then open Terminal and navigate to the folder: cd ~/Downloads/tor-0.2.7.6Įnter. Open the README file and check the build instruction. To build any tool from the sources Xcode and/or Xcode Command Line Tools are required. This will invoke Archive Utility and the file will be extracted to a folder (usually with the same name as the archive). To unzip/unarchive the file simply double-click it. *.tar.gz files are gzipped archive files.

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