Er, I haven't updated the 0.5.2 Makefile -- that's old, sorry. You don't need to screw with your torrc anymore. You can just type "make gems" and it'll install the required dependencies. I think by default to avoid requiring privileges, it installs them into your home directory... pretty sure that's how I set 0.5.2 up anyway. If you still get messages about missing files or something, then just stick them in the system location with "make gems-remote" and it'll just do a regular install.To be clear, you do not need any special permissions for anything except installing the dependencies (the gems).Oh -- also, if you don't have Tor running, the program doesn't do much except fail. It should at least give you an error message though if you're in Linux... in Windows, if you want console output you have to run it with "ruby" instead of just running "metasilk.rbw", but in Linux you should be getting a failure message at least.