Ubuntu – How to start Tor browser? It “exited unexpectedly”

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First off, I'm new to linux but I'm learning fast.
I've been trying to install tor and privoxy just to see how things work and stuff
I tried with the terminal at first but it keeps failing, I tried using synaptic but it didn't work either.

Sometimes I get close and even get to see a shortcut on dash home and open it but tor & doesn't work and when I click the shortcut I get this

Vidalia detected that the Tor software exited unexpectedly.
Please check the message log for recent warning or error messages.

error log

Jul 16 20:47:12.935 [Warning] /home/analytic4l/.tor-browser/Data/Tor is not owned by this user (analytic4l, 1000) but by root (0). Perhaps you are running Tor as the wrong user?
Jul 16 20:47:12.935 [Warning] Failed to parse/validate config: Couldn't access/create private data directory "/home/analytic4l/.tor-browser/Data/Tor"
Jul 16 20:47:12.935 [Error] Reading config failed--see warnings above.

chmod wont work

analytic4l@analytic4l-ER190AA-ABA-s7420n:~$ sudo chmod -R analytic4l: /home/analytic4l/.tor-browser
chmod: invalid mode: `analytic4l:'
Try `chmod --help' for more information.

Best Answer

You've probably started Tor browser as root some time earlier. This has created files with owner root as you can see in the error output. Because you now run it as a different user, the files are not accessible/writeable by the user analytic4l and that's why it fails to start.

Fix this by changing ownership. Run in a terminal:

sudo chown -R analytic4l: /home/analytic4l/.tor-browser
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