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diff --git a/doc/tor-doc.html b/doc/tor-doc.html index 9b0f93cbe6..13f4cd014e 100644 --- a/doc/tor-doc.html +++ b/doc/tor-doc.html @@ -153,31 +153,16 @@ server <a href="#server">below</a>.</p> <a name="installing"></a> <h2>Installing Tor</h2> -<p>We have installers for Windows and Mac OS X 10.3 or later. For help -with installing, - configuring, and using Tor on these operating systems, consult the - <a href="tor-doc-win32.html">Windows instructions</a> or the - <a href="tor-doc-osx.html">Mac OS X instructions</a>. -</p> - -<p>You can get the latest releases <a -href="http://tor.eff.org/dist/">here</a>.</p> +<p>We have installers for Windows, Mac OS X 10.3, and Red Hat. We +have contributed packages for Debian, Gentoo, and *BSD. See <a href="http://tor.eff.org/download.html">the download page</a> for pointers and details. <p>If you got Tor from a tarball, unpack it: <tt>tar xzf tor-0.0.9.9.tar.gz; cd tor-0.0.9.9</tt>. Run <tt>./configure</tt>, then <tt>make</tt>, and then <tt>make install</tt> (as root if necessary). Then you can launch tor from the command-line by running <tt>tor</tt>. -Otherwise, if you got it prepackaged (e.g. in the <a -href="http://packages.debian.org/tor">Debian package</a> or <a -href="http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=net-misc;name=tor">Gentoo -package</a>), these steps are already done for you, and you may -even already have Tor started in the background (logging to -/var/log/something).</p> - -<p><b>For newer releases</b>: To build Tor version 0.1.0.1-rc or later from -source, you will need Niels Provos's <tt>libevent</tt> library; you can get -the source for the latest version -<a href="http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/">here</a>.</p> +Otherwise, if you got it prepackaged, these steps are already done +for you, and you may even already have Tor started in the background +(logging to /var/log/something).</p> <p>In any case, see the <a href="#client">next section</a> for what to <i>do</i> with it now that you've got it running.</p> |