privoxy refusing connections?

[Kailash Kalyani <listskailash@gmail.com>]

Hi All,

Came across privoxy and wanted to test it out so I installed it

sudo apt-get install privoxy

And configured my browser to use the proxy at
127.0.0.1 port 8118

I keep getting the error: "The proxy server is refusing connections"

I checked the privoxy config file and the log file. Log file's empty and 
the config file has a line:
listen-address  localhost:8118

Would anyone have pointers on how to solve this?

Regards,
Kailash