Setting up vidalia on ubuntu

Almost all colleges have some sort of censoring on their Internet service. Many sites like facebook, youtube etc tends to be blocked. A solution to this problem is to use the tor network. Polipo makes pages load faster on slow networks and since tor is not so fast, it is good to set up polipo as well. Here are steps to do it in ubuntu

1. Install vidalia and polipo
   sudo apt-get install vidalia
   sudo apt-get install polipo
   
   
2. Open config of polipo
   sudo gedit /etc/polipo/config
   
3. Add/uncomment these lines
   socksParentProxy = "localhost:9050"
   socksProxyType = socks5
   
4. Do this if you use proxy to access Net. Go to settings and network. Tick I use a proxy to access the internet and fill in the details.Remove tor from startup by doing
   sudo update-rc.d tor disable
   & restart.
5. Start tor. First run takes longer but later it'll connect faster. When it turns green, it means that the network is connected.
   
6. Open your browser's settings where you normally give your proxy address. Give the address as 127.0.0.1 and port as 8123
   
7. That's it. Happy surfing.