You don't need to modify the installation script. If torsocks is on the system, start the MetaSilk installation with torsocks make On a Debian based distro, torsocks will be installed with the vanilla Tor client. Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libevent-2.0-5 (>= 2.0.10-stable), libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), adduser, lsb-base Recommends: logrotate, tor-geoipdb, torsocks Anyone who wants to run MetaSilk should have the vanilla client anyway. Running a persistent application through TBB's Tor is hackish. Plus, the one of the main selling points of a desktop app like MetaSilk is that you don't need to have a browser open all the time. So, in the README you could include one line that if you want to install over Tor, run torsocks make. Also point out that if installing in Tails (which is quite popular around here), they don't have to do that because all connections are torified already.