ARM on CentOS 7

Question

I'm currently hosting a tor exit relay running on CentOS 7 64-bit and i heard about arm and i've been trying to get it to work on Centos and nothing is working. I tried sudo "yum install tor-arm" and it says that there isn't a package available. I searched everywhere on google and the official Arm page and nothing is working.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Answer 1

A quick Google resulted in the following page, which details both how to set up a relay on CentOS, and how to install ARM:

https://www.pixeljumble.com/how-to-setup-a-tor-relay-on-centos/

The pertinent parts are:

1. Download ARM from https://www.atagar.com/arm/download.php
2. Install the package: rpm -ivh arm-replace-with-version-downloaded.rpm
3. Restart Tor: service tor restart
4. Run ARM: arm

The documentation for ARM can be found in its README. From the ARM homepage you can follow the links to the associated Git repository, under which ARM is actually referred to as nyx. The README can be found here.

Answer 2

Posting despite the fact this is an old topic, given it is a popular hit when searching for this.

Posted at https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/d8td66/quickdirty_installation_guide_for_installing_nyx/ as well.

TL;DR: pip3.x is probably the easiest way for CentOS/RHEL7.

Prerequisites: * A functioning tor node * ControlPort 9051 and CookieAuthentication 1 in your torrc file.

Step 1: Install Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository configuration

sudo yum -y install epel-release

Step 2: Install python34-setuptools

sudo yum -y install python34-setuptools

Step 3: Install pip

sudo easy_install-3.4 pip

Step 4: Install nyx itself

sudo pip3.7 install nyx

Step 5: Enjoy nyx!

nyx

N.B.: nyx will run as root but there is no benefit to doing so and you probably should practice not running things as root for the lols.