Ubuntu – How to start Tor Browser

14.04tortor-browser

My experience with Linux based operative systems are quite small but I learnt a lot when I used Elementary OS Luna (based on Ubuntu 12.04). Had help from internet and a friend with more than 10 years Linux experience (I can't get in touch with him at the moment).

I followed the instructions here and the installation went without any problems at all.

I have a feeling that the only thing I have done is to have been "preparing" the computer to set up Firefox and other applications to run through Tor instead of installing Tor Browser, please say it's not so?

Otherwise, how do I open Tor Browser?

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What you may want to do instead is just download the tor browser bundle (32 or 64) from here: https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en

After it's downloaded, extract it to a folder - it can be in your home directory.

To run it, cd to where the you extracted the bundle and run ./start-tor-browser. This will launch the proxy which then launches the browser.

Note: This PPA hasn't been updated in YEARS already (since 2015) is several updates behind the official Tor Browser Bundle release.

Run the below commands to install tor browser in Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit version:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:upubuntu-com/tor64
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/upubuntu-com-tor64-saucy.list

Change saucy to raring and save that file:
Update the repositories:
```
sudo apt-get update
```
Now you can install the Tor Browser Bundle:
```
sudo apt-get install tor-browser 
```

Ubuntu – Tor Browser Launcher does not download Tor Browser

i got the same thing but never explored why or how to fix. I had ubuntu.podcast playing at the moment I got the error where they were talking about the "software boutique", so I gave it a try and presto - i had tor browser installed. if no-one else can answer as to a fix; you could always try my lazy-ass work-around

[software boutique is a new-ish [ubuntu-mate] ubuntu-software-centre that contains common or best-in-class type apps, skipping many less-used ones]

addendum: if trying this, un-install current version first; as I was left with two menu items & icons (one for fully-installed by boutique, and other failed by apt-get); so its probably quicker to have none-installed first instead of working out which is which to un-install the partially-installed-one..

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