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After wondering why Tor would download but would not run on my raspberry pi, I found this question. How To Run Tor On Raspberry Pi. The answer says:

Solution If you want to run newer Tor versions than are available from the Raspbian folks, you will have to build them yourself.

You can build it from the source tarball like a lot of other Unix/Linux software and install it locally.

But I cant find any tutorials on how to do this. Can anyone tell me how I install tor from the source locally? Thanks!

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  • Which Raspberry Pi do you have? If you are running the Raspberry Pi Model 2 or newer, you can use the official Debian repository. You only need to build from source if you are using the older Arm6 model.
    – SuperSluether
    Commented May 10, 2016 at 23:00

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No problem! Doing it myself regulary! You need a gcc and g++ and the next libraries, compiled in the order of listing here :

  • Zlib. You need it to compile OpenSSL with compression support
  • OpenSSL. Take a stable source if you're not PRO with source building
  • Libevent. Take a 2.0 current version and go on

In configure I strongly recommend you to install in a global system prefix - for your own good - I'm doing it like this : 

./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc

and in OpenSSL don't forget to set your openssldir to /etc/ssl

after building + configuring + testing/checking and installing properly working packages specified above - just run ldconfig with no arguments from a root user - and build Tor! Feel free to ask further questions! And take a look at my linux-builder project, it's related to exactly that situation, but it's a bit outdated ;)

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