HOWTO : Tor and Proxychains on Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 LTS

(A) Tor

Step 1 :

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tor.list

Append the following :

deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org precise main

Save and exit.

sudo -sH

gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv 886DDD89
gpg --export A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89 | sudo apt-key add -

apt-get update
apt-get install deb.torproject.org-keyring
apt-get install tor tor-geoipdb vidalia privoxy

Step 2 :

sudo nano /etc/privoxy/config

Append the following line :

forward-socks5 / 127.0.0.1:9050 .

If you are behind NAT or router, you should append the following line :

forward 192.168.*.*/ .

Step 3 :

sudo update-rc.d privoxy disable
sudo update-rc.d tor disable

sudo /etc/init.d/privoxy start
sudo /etc/init.d/tor start

(B) Proxychains

Step 4 :

sudo apt-get install proxychains

sudo nano /etc/proxychains.conf

Change the following line :

socks4 127.0.0.1 9050

To :

socks5 127.0.0.1 9050