Compiling Tor on CentOS 6.5
$ yum groupinstall "Development Tools" $ yum install libevent-devel openssl-devel $ ./configure $ make $ make install
That’s it. I actually started writing this when I thought it would be more complicated.
It looks like the RPM for CentOS doesn’t work with NTor (the new, faster) handshakes. There’s some discussion on tor-relays@ about this here.