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May 1, 2020

Using Tor system wide in Fedora

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 If you like to be anonymous and not be visible by hackers and much more, you will like Tor, the concept is that your data travels through nodes and encrypted layer by layer, this can be achieved by both Tor Browser and system wide Tor.
 If you have apps that are not very secure you can try tor system wide to get a layer of protection.

Installation:

The required Packages are "torsocks", and standalone "tor" bundle from dnf.
sudo dnf install tor
sudo dnf install torsocks

Running: 

When the required packages are downloaded and installed you can now start tor by running
systemctl start tor
But we are not done yet, you need to assign a proxy in order to make tor function, so we head over to settings => network => proxy => set to manual

and use the configuration as shown:

Well done, check if tor is functional by visiting "check.torproject.org"

To revert back to local network, run
systemctl stop tor
and revert your proxy settings back to disabled.
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