Tor Testing network

dom17

I am trying to setup a small testing network to test Tor. But not having much joy .I have read about Chutney but finding it extremely hard to find any guides/tutorials as to how to install it. Is Chutney a secret club for those familiar with it. Any help appreciated.
Thanks

syklops

dom17 wrote: »

I am trying to setup a small testing network to test Tor. But not having much joy .I have read about Chutney but finding it extremely hard to find any guides/tutorials as to how to install it. Is Chutney a secret club for those familiar with it. Any help appreciated.
Thanks

Not used chutney, but Im unsure why you think its a secret club.

I googled chutney and tor. I got this page: https://gitweb.torproject.org/chutney.git

I cloned the git repo into a temporary directory. Once it had downloaded I had a shell script which called a python script. I also had a README file which told me quite a bit.

Running the shell script produced the following:

[root@newgrange chutney]# ./chutney 
Error: Not enough arguments given.

Usage: chutney {command} {networkfile}
Known commands are: configure hup move_aside_nodes restart start status stop verify

Where are you having difficulty?

dom17

I am new to this, wouldnt be great at programming languages , but when I go to the chutney pages I cant seem to find any simple documentation as to how to install or even what platform to run it on. I am assuming(pretty sure )you run it on some version of linux/unix.

Ok found the read me file. I tried the ./chutney networks/basic command prior to posting in ubuntu desktop 12.04 terminal but got some error. I am in the midst of setting up 12.04 server and will try the commands from the readme file and let you know how I get on

Thanks

syklops

dom17 wrote: »

I am new to this, wouldnt be great at programming languages , but when I go to the chutney pages I cant seem to find any simple documentation as to how to install or even what platform to run it on. I am assuming(pretty sure )you run it on some version of linux/unix.

Ok found the read me file. I tried the ./chutney networks/basic command prior to posting in ubuntu desktop 12.04 terminal but got some error. I am in the midst of setting up 12.04 server and will try the commands from the readme file and let you know how I get on

Thanks

"Some error" isnt very helpful.

FYI, the only difference between Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 and Ubuntu Server 12.04 are the packages installed. The core components are exactly the same.

From the README:

You will need, at the moment:
  - Tor installed somewhere in your path or the location of the 'tor' and
    'tor-gencert' binaries specified through the environment variables
    CHUTNEY_TOR and CHUTNEY_TOR_GENCERT, respectively.
  - Python 2.7 or later

Did you have tor installed on the linux machine? Was it in the PATH?

dom17

no cant install tor "package tor has no installation candidate"

looking for fix, found this

Add the tor repository into your repository list(in this tutorial, I use Backtrack 5 R3 Debian base.) Edit file /etc/apt/sources.list and put below string into it.
- deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org lucid main


Do I need to change lucid main to my flavour of ubuntu

syklops

To install tor on Ubuntu copy the following commands and paste them into a terminal. You can copy and paste them all in one go and paste them:

gksudo 'apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 886DDD89'
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org $(lsb_release -s -c) main"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install tor-geoipdb

syklops

Did that resolve it?

dom17

sorry syklops, no it didnt, it came back with an error, i had to take a break i will get the exact wording and post it. But it was to do with the geoipdb.
Didnt mention this before but I am running this node in VMware 11. But I did an update and upgrade prior to installing Tor.

Thanks again