I'm trying to use Tor, but the problem is when I click on the tor browser it says it needs an update.
I grant permission (allowing execution of the file as a program) to start-tor-browser
and I downloaded the most recent update bundle of Tor, but when I double click on start-tor-browser
, a text file pops up, and I click on the Tor browser it says it needs an update. When I use the terminal's commands sudo start-tor-browser
or sudo /start-tor-browser
it says command not found
.
I'm new to Linux and I have very little knowledge of the OS. If needed I can post screen shots.
Best Answer
If you double-click on (allow-executing-file-as-program)
start-tor-browser
, you should be presented with a dialog of four options:Run
,Run-in-Terminal
,Display
andCancel
. Do you see these options? If so, tryRun
.Alternatively, you can set up a custom keyboard shortcut and use something like the following command (depending on where / into which folder you extracted
tor
):"/home/user_name/my_tor/bundle/tor-browser_en-US/start-tor-browser"
to launch
tor
.(Don't use
sudo
.)If you wanted to launch
tor
via the command line, you could navigate to the folder and just typestart-tor-browser
. Given that it's just locally downloaded and not formally installed, you'll need to supply the path (or registerstart-tor-browser
manually - but that's a separate question).Update (mid-May 2015)
The previous command ceased to work for me. The following does work:
... taken from the official Tor desktop configuration file ...