Ubuntu – Unable to run TOR Browser Bundle, not even in terminal

12.04tor

I am a Linux newbie, and this is the first time I am using TOR in 12.04.
I have an issue in running TOR for which I couldn't find any specific answer in the Internet.

So let me explain.

  1. I downloaded TOR browser bundle (tor-browser-gnu-linux-x86_64-2.2.38-1-dev-en-US.tar.gz) and saved to this location: /media/50B8245BB82441B8/TOR/

  2. I then extracted tar.gz file into the same directory. So now I have /media/50B8245BB82441B8/TOR/tor-browser_en-US

In this directory, there is a file start-tor-browser. The problem is that, when I double click this file, it opens in text format, instead of launching TOR Vidalia.

So I right-clicked this file > Permissions > checked Allow executing file as program, but again it automatically unchecks it.

I then thought of executing this file through the terminal, but nothing seems to work. 

cd /media/50B8245BB82441B8/TOR/tor-browser_en-US    
jerry@ubuntu:/media/50B8245BB82441B8/TOR/tor-browser_en-US$    
jerry@ubuntu:/media/50B8245BB82441B8/TOR/tor-browser_en-US$ start-tor-browser    
start-tor-browser: command not found    
jerry@ubuntu:/media/50B8245BB82441B8/TOR/tor-browser_en-US$ cd start-tor-browser    
bash: cd: start-tor-browser: Not a directory    
jerry@ubuntu:/media/50B8245BB82441B8/TOR/tor-browser_en-US$ sudo start-tor-browser    
[sudo] password for jerry:     
sudo: start-tor-browser: command not found    
jerry@ubuntu:/media/50B8245BB82441B8/TOR/tor-browser_en-US$ gksu start-tor-browser    
jerry@ubuntu:/media/50B8245BB82441B8/TOR/tor-browser_en-US$

As you can see, when I use gksu, nothing really happens except an empty command line added with a blinking cursor.

Can someone please help?

Best Answer

It seems that the device you have extracted it on does not support permissions (is not a native Linux filesystem). Re-extract the tar.gz but do it in your home directory (home directory should support permissions).

DO NOT JUST COPY THE FILES FROM WHERE YOU EXTRACTED THEM! IT WILL NOT WORK!

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