wiki/pages/en/server/services/torsocks.txt

====== Torsocks ======

Torsocks is a wrapper to safely torify applications.

<alert type="info" icon="fa fa-info-circle">This tutorial is only about using some applications over tor, not the whole network. Maybe we will add that later.</alert>
<alert type="danger" icon="fa fa-warning">If you just want to use your browser over Tor, just use the Tor browser right away. Check out our [[en/desktop/services/browser#tor_-_browser|browser tutorial]].</alert>

===== Package =====

<code>
sudo pacman -S tor torsocks
</code>

===== Start =====

<code>
sudo systemctl enable --now tor.service
</code>

===== Usage =====

<code>
torsocks pacman -Syu
</code>

==== Test ====

<code>
torsocks wget -qO- https://check.torproject.org/ | grep -i congratulations
</code>

> Congratulations. This browser is configured to use Tor.

<code>
torsocks curl https://ipleak.net/json/
</code>