September 18, 20242 yr Hi, The package torsocks wasn't working and I could not understand why it was not. Torsocks configuration file: /etc/tor/torsocks.conf (default) specifies port 9050 # Default Tor address and port. By default, Tor will listen on localhost for # any SOCKS connection and relay the traffic on the Tor network. TorAddress 127.0.0.1 TorPort 9050 So port 9050 should be visible with netstat, but it was not: $ netstat -at tcp 0 0 127.0.0.53:domain 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 127.0.0.54:domain 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN $ Then I tried to enable tor.service, but got an error: $ systemctl enable tor.service Failed to enable unit: Unit file tor.service does not exist. Maybe the tor package was not installed $ dpkg --get-selections | grep '^tor' torsocks install After installing the tor package: $ apt install tor Netstat should now show the port 9050 to be listening: $ netstat -at tcp 0 0 localhost:9050 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 127.0.0.53:domain 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 127.0.0.54:domain 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN Why is "tor" listed as a "recommended" package? Should this not be a dependency? $ sudo apt install torsocks Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Recommended packages: tor The following NEW packages will be installed: torsocks 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 74,7 kB of archives. After this operation, 416 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main arm64 torsocks arm64 2.4.0-1 [74,7 kB] Fetched 74,7 kB in 0s (202 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package torsocks. (Reading database ... 117684 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../torsocks_2.4.0-1_arm64.deb ... Unpacking torsocks (2.4.0-1) ... Setting up torsocks (2.4.0-1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.11.2-2) ... $
September 19, 20242 yr Author Running Debian on an x86/64 you can clearly see that "tor" is one of the dependencies for "torsocks" $ uname -a Linux TEST-MACHINE 6.1.0-25-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.106-3 (2024-08-26) x86_64 GNU/Linux $ sudo apt install torsocks Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: runit-helper tor tor-geoipdb Suggested packages: mixmaster torbrowser-launcher socat apparmor-utils nyx obfs4proxy The following NEW packages will be installed: runit-helper tor tor-geoipdb torsocks 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 3.624 kB of archives. After this operation, 17,6 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Found the problem, yay! Is this something Armbian fixes, or must this be reported upstream ? Edited September 19, 20242 yr by Dantes
September 20, 20242 yr Author Reported the bug (and solution) upstream to <pkg-privacy-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>. I wonder how long it will take
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