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So the other day I upgraded to Karmic Koala (for the non-techies - thats the new Ubuntu (for those who have no idea what Ubuntu is - I'm proud that I write the only website you ever read) ).  Most of what I needed to work, worked - no problems.  My tablet?  The pen works - the buttons don't - but so what - I didn't use them anyway.  It boots quickly, it looks nice, and doesn't crash.  I'm not sure why they went from a default IM client of Pidgin to Empathy unless its because Empathy has potential.  But its not there yet, so I'm sticking with Pidgin for now.

Now this post isn't called, Karmic Koala - A Review.  What I wanted to share is how to get Privoxy working with Tor again after the upgrade.  Now if you're like me when you initially installed Tor, you replaced the Privoxy config file ( /etc/privoxy/config ) with the one from torproject.org .  If you kept this config file during the upgrade, your Privoxy is now broken.  Luckily this is easy to fix.

First, you need to edit /etc/privoxy/config . Look for the 3 lines that look like this:

actionsfile standard  # Internal purpose, recommended
actionsfile default   # Main actions file
actionsfile user      # User customizations

You need to add ".action" to the end of each of these because that is how the files they refer to are named.  So after editing it should look like this:

actionsfile standard.action  # Internal purpose, recommended
actionsfile default.action   # Main actions file
actionsfile user.action      # User customizations

Now you need to edit each of the files named above.  Its a simple search and replace (without quotes): "hide-forwarded-for-headers" with "change-x-forward-for".

That's it - Privoxy will now be working again.