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tor package in Ubuntu

Asked by Till Ulen

What's happened to the tor package in recent Ubuntu releases (including Karmic beta)? Debian includes tor, but I can't find it in Ubuntu using packages.ubuntu.com.

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wojox (wojox) said : 		#1

You have to go to the site and add the ppa: http://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en

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Till Ulen (tillulen) said : 		#2

That doesn't answer my question.

Why is tor not in Ubuntu? What's the reason? How was it excluded?

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wojox (wojox) said : 		#3

They are not maintained and most likely old and therefore miss out on stability and possibly security fixes.

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Till Ulen (tillulen) said : 		#4

They are maintained in Debian. A package is usually just copied from Debian to Ubuntu universe as is. What's special with the tor package that it is not maintained in Ubuntu?

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Best Luis F. Lopez (luis.lopez) said : 		#5

@Alexander: You can find more information about the tor situation in Jaunty here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+source/tor/+bug/328442

There's a "need packaging" bug available here:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/413657

Hope this helps,

Luis

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Till Ulen (tillulen) said : 		#6

Thanks Luis F. Lopez, that solved my question.