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Gordon,
Thanks.
To see if it was possible just now I set up an obfsproxy bridge as best I could but it failed to download properly.
I reinstalled Ubuntu 11.10 64 and free -m brought this.. total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 256 38 217 0 0 26 -/+ buffers/cache: 12 243 Swap: 0 0 0
That looks good for the RAM - a bridge should be fine with that, and that's actually a darn good set of numbers for Ubuntu!
Again following the instructions https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en#development apt-get install tor deb.torproject.org-keyring brought this...
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main libevent-2.0-5 amd64 2.0.12-stable-1 [132 kB] Err http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/ experimental-oneiric/main tor amd64 0.2.4.17-rc-1~oneiric+1 404 Not Found [IP: 82.195.75.101 80] Get:2 http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/ oneiric/main deb.torproject.org-keyring all 2012.08.29 [4138 B] Err http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/ experimental-oneiric/main tor-geoipdb all 0.2.4.17-rc-1~oneiric+1 404 Not Found [IP: 82.195.75.101 80] Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe torsocks amd64 1.1-4 [69.7 kB] Fetched 206 kB in 0s (290 kB/s) Failed to fetch http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/pool/main/t/tor/tor_0.2.4.17-rc-1~o... 404 Not Found [IP: 82.195.75.101 80] Failed to fetch http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/pool/main/t/tor/tor-geoipdb_0.2.4.1... 404 Not Found [IP: 82.195.75.101 80] E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
This appears to happen because nobody has put a binary package 0.2.4.17-rc-1~oneiric+1_amd64.deb into http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/pool/main/t/tor/ - this is a problem on the Tor Project's repo, not with how you are attempting to install.
You could attempt to build the package from source, the instructions are at https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en#source - this is how I install Tor onto the Raspberry Pi, for example.
Any tor .deb repo-master reading: has there been a discussion of a package autobuilder? Is there such a thing? Missing packages like this - not good :(
If there are $12USD a year servers available can't a package be set-up to utilise them.
Yes, this is merely an unexpected (and fixable) problem :)
I'm burrowing through the Linux lingo as well as I can but it's a real test of mettle!
Having used Linux since the mid-1990s, I agree. ;)
Have you looked at the Cubie 2 board?
I own two of them, and my project to make the Raspberry Pi into a super-reliable Tor relay has expanded to have a goal of supporting BeagleBone boards (as Josh Dakto mentions) and Cubieboards. The Cubieboard 2 is very, very new and there are still a large number of bugs and many firmware releases, but it's a very capable machine - more than double the Pi (and with 1024MB of RAM and SATA!) for less than double the cost.
To seek finance to distribute a devoted board with the best balance of components and cost would lead to more Tor network I reckon.
The goal of my project[1] (which is very very pre-alpha right now) is to make it really easy for people to run reliable, trouble-free relays and bridges on these inexpensive machines, and then maybe some angel will come along and buy $10,000 worth of them and give them away :)
1. https://github.com/gordon-morehouse/cipollini
Best, - -Gordon M.