Failing to start on Ubuntu

Barre / privaxy

Privaxy is the next generation tracker and advertisement blocker. It blocks ads and trackers by MITMing HTTP(s) traffic. Also check out my new project, https://www.merklemap.com/

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Failing to start on Ubuntu #65

Closed L8X closed 1 year ago

L8X commented 1 year ago

(privaxy:6458): Gtk-WARNING **: 19:07:28.418: cannot open display:

Barre commented 1 year ago

Do you have an X server running? Are you intending to use privaxy on an headless machine?

L8X commented 1 year ago

what's an X server? headless, you mean with no interface? If yes, then yes.

Barre commented 1 year ago

what's an X server?

https://x.org/wiki/

headless, you mean with no interface? If yes, then yes.

Then, you need to download a "nogui" version https://github.com/Barre/privaxy/releases/tag/v0.5.2