Wrong Tor Config in installer - HELP

[lordGrima]

Hey everyone,

In the installer tor is uninstalled and some new version is installed for linux. I am on whonix. Do I understand something wrong regarding the install.sh script?

[kristapsk]

install.sh does not touch global Tor installation, it just allows to opt-in for installing local version inside jmvenv (but it's off by default).

[lordGrima]

Thanks for responding. Look, truth be told, I dont understand why those are lines below are there then. And if it is off by default, why is it being configured. Remember I am on a whonix system, so tor is handled by gateway (second virtual machine that the workstation connects):

tor_build ()
{
$make uninstall
$make distclean
./configure
--disable-system-torrc
--disable-seccomp
--disable-libscrypt
--disable-module-relay
--disable-lzma
--disable-zstd
--disable-asciidoc
--disable-manpage
--disable-html-manual
--prefix="$(tor_root)"
$make
if ! $make check; then
return 1
fi
}

tor_install ()
{
tor_version='tor-0.4.7.13'
tor_tar="${tor_version}.tar.gz"
tor_sha='2079172cce034556f110048e26083ce9bea751f3154b0ad2809751815b11ea9d'
tor_url='https://dist.torproject.org'
tor_pubkeys='Tor.asc'

if ! dep_get "${tor_tar}" "${tor_sha}" "${tor_url}" "${tor_pubkeys}" "" "${tor_tar}.sha256sum" "${tor_tar}.sha256sum.asc"; then
    return 1
fi
pushd "${tor_version}" || return 1
if tor_build; then
    $make install
    echo "# Default JoinMarket Tor configuration

Log warn stderr
SOCKSPort 9050 IsolateDestAddr IsolateDestPort
ControlPort 9051
CookieAuthentication 1
" > "$(tor_root)/etc/tor/torrc"
else
return 1
fi
popd || return 1

[kristapsk]

tor_install is only called if build_local_tor is enabled, for which you need to call install.sh with --with-local-tor flag, which is off by default.

joinmarket-clientserver/install.sh

Lines 492 to 494 in 01dc08a

	--with-local-tor)
	build_local_tor='1'
	;;

joinmarket-clientserver/install.sh

Lines 622 to 627 in 01dc08a

	if [[ ${build_local_tor} == "1" ]]; then
	if ! tor_deps_install; then
	echo "Tor dependencies could not be installed. Exiting."
	return 1
	fi
	fi

joinmarket-clientserver/install.sh

Lines 642 to 647 in 01dc08a

	if [[ ${build_local_tor} == "1" ]]; then
	if ! tor_install; then
	echo "Building local Tor was requested, but not built. Exiting."
	return 1
	fi
	fi

[lordGrima]

Lol, thnx, all the worries, just because I dont know shell syntax

[kristapsk]

And it doesn't touch anything system wide, it builds and install everything under jmvenv dir under JM dir.

Unless you call install.sh with --docker-install flag, which should be used only when building Docker image for JM.

[lordGrima]

nope I did netiher, so I am all good then. Btw what do you think of my other discussion topic in the discussions :)

[lordGrima]

but is there anything general I should do when using this with whonix vms?

[PulpCattel]

AFAIK it should work more or less out of the box. Depending on your setup, you may have to tweak the config (e.g., socks proxy). Check the Whonix docs for all the info.