Windows Tor Vidalia bundle Setup

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Vidalia is designed to run on most architectures that are supported by Qt 4.3 or later. The app is extremely easy to install: make sure Tor is already installed on your Mac and then simply copy the Vidalia app to your drive. The Vidalia Control Panel displays the current Tor status and provides quick access.

This tutorial will teach you how to setup the tor Vidalia bundle with latest tor exe files so you can easily have an auto start tor Vidalia process/proxy on boot without having to do command line shenanigans with their expert bundle.

First off I want to state that they for whatever reason no longer provide updates to the windows tor Vidalia bundle since like 2012 which is sad as it’s so helpful. Unsure of the reason for the lack of updates, but my tutorial will help you get setup and patch the bundles old tor with the latest version.

1. Vidalia is a cross-platform controller GUI for Tor, built using the Qt framework. Using Vidalia, you can start and stop Tor, view the status of Tor at a glance, and monitor Tor's bandwidth usage.Vidalia also makes it easy to contribute to the Tor.
2. Vidalia for Mac is a Tor package offered in different forms, one being a bundle that includes three different programs. The bundle includes a Tor client, the Vidalia GUI, and the Privoxy filtering.

First off for those curious I grabbed the most recent tor Vidalia bundle from their archive.

Main file you need is

They signed it as well so feel free to check the file checksum if you’re feeling extra paranoid.

Now what you want to do is install this Vidalia bundle, but do not install the tor button in options. Once installed do not run it yet if prompted.

Now that we have the Vidalia gui installed we can update the tor binary exes with the latest version from the tor expert bundle. Which provides an up to date tor install along with the Vidalia gui for easy start stop/change identity options and whatnot and for easy always on proxy support via socks5 for apps like pidgin/electrum/ or whatever you need to torrify.

To update the tor binary exes we can update tor by grabbing the latest tor expert bundle for windows from their site

Now download and unzip this into the directory

C:Program Files (x86)Vidalia BundleTor

This should overwrite the old tor exes and whatnot

Make sure you extract the data directory from the zip into the tor Vidalia directory (C:Program Files (x86)Vidalia BundleTor) as well as into root of the Vidalia install (C:Program Files (x86)Vidalia Bundle) as well

Your directories should look like mine below.

Now you can start Vidalia bundle and it should connect to tor and be using latest version of tor with the Vidalia gui.

Now you can use localhost:9050 for any apps you want to proxy with tor via socks 5.

Compatibility

Windows

This is known to work on windows 7,8,8.1,10 and probably xp if for whatever reason your using that still.

Possibly work for MAC??? Needs testing

I believe this method should work for MAC as well as I see they have dmg image there too. Patching that with new binaries should be be fairly simple for any MAC enthusiast.

Linux

Vidalia bundle is also in Opensuse extra repos for those looking for an easy way to use installs easily via 1click yast and is nice OS with security updates and linux desktop with gui.

https://software.opensuse.org/package/vidalia

Vidalia Bundle For Windows 10

Vidalia is a cross-platform GUI for controlling Tor, built using Qt. It allows the user to start, stop or view the status of Tor, view, filter or search log messages, monitor bandwidth usage, and configure some aspects of Tor. Vidalia also makes it easier to contribute to the Tor network by optionally helping the user set up a Tor relay.

Another prominent feature of Vidalia is its Tor network map, which lets the user see the geographic location of relays on the Tor network, as well as where the user's application traffic is going.

The name comes from the Vidalia onion since Tor uses onion routing.

Vidalia is released under the GNU General Public License. It runs on any platform supported by Qt 4.2, including Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux or other Unix-like variants using the X11 window system.

Vidalia is no longer maintained or supported,^[1] and Tor developers do not recommend its use anymore.^[2]

Vidalia Bundle For Mac

See also[edit]

Vidalia Bundle For Mac Pro

• ProxAllium - An actively maintained alternative to Vidalia^[3][4]

References[edit]

1. ^'I'm having a problem updating or using Vidalia'. support.torproject.org.
2. ^Hahn, Sebastian (9 February 2015). 'Removal of Vidalia content from our website'. tor-talk. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
3. ^Softpedia page for ProxAllium describing the similar operations in the review.
4. ^Tor's official wiki with the 'Support Programs' page mentioning ProxAllium.

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