command line needed for installing a program
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I have just downloaded tor browser but I dont know how to install it Dose anyone know what the code is for typing into the terminal please? Thanks JBG |
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A web search for "how to install TOR linux command line" turns up a number of articles and tutorials.
This one looks like a good starting point: https://www.how2shout.com/how-to/ins...-terminal.html |
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hear is a copy of the terminal a@a-HP-Compaq-dc7700-Convertible-Minitower:~$ cd Downloads a@a-HP-Compaq-dc7700-Convertible-Minitower:~/Downloads$ ls tor-browser-linux32-10.5a6_en-US.tar.xz a@a-HP-Compaq-dc7700-Convertible-Minitower:~/Downloads$ tar -xvJF tor-browser-linux32-10.5a6_en-US.tar.xz tar: Cannot use multi-volume compressed archives Try 'tar --help' or 'tar --usage' for more information. a@a-HP-Compaq-dc7700-Convertible-Minitower:~/Downloads$ |
If you're using a Debian-based distro, just install the torbrowser-launcher package from the repos.
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I saw the Ubuntu logo in your profile so I assumed you were using something Debian-based.
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Linux Mint is in the Debian family. It is based on Ubuntu which is in turn built out of Debian.
So, as suggested in #5 above, try looking for the torbrowser-launcher package in the repository and install that. Which version of Linux Mint do you have? |
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tar -xvJf tor-browser-linux32-10.5a6_en-US.tar.xz |
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I wrote that code on a picece of paper to copy it and yes it is written down as a capital F I have this problem with my wifi code and I think the issue lies with the fonts |
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tar -xvJF tor-browser-linux64-7.5.6_en-US.tar.xz’ Therefore they have made the typo and should be informed about it |
this is what the terminal now says
a@a-HP-Compaq-dc7700-Convertible-Minitower:~$ cd Downloads a@a-HP-Compaq-dc7700-Convertible-Minitower:~/Downloads$ ls tor-browser_en-US tor-browser-linux32-10.5a6_en-US.tar.xz a@a-HP-Compaq-dc7700-Convertible-Minitower:~/Downloads$ tar -xvJf tor-browser-linux32-10.5a6_en-US.tar.xz tor-browser_en-US/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/.config/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/.config/gtk-3.0/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Browser/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Browser/Caches/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Browser/profile.default/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Browser/profile.default/bookmarks.html tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Browser/profile.default/extensions/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Browser/profile.default/extensions/{73a6fe31-595d-460b-a920-fcc0f8843232}.xpi tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Browser/profiles.ini tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/geoip tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/geoip6 tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/torrc tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/torrc-defaults tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/fontconfig/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/fontconfig/fonts.conf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Docs/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Docs/ChangeLog.txt tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Docs/Licenses/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Docs/Licenses/Firefox.txt tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Docs/Licenses/HTTPS-Everywhere.txt tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Docs/Licenses/Libevent.txt tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Docs/Licenses/NoScript.txt tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Docs/Licenses/Noto-CJK-Font.txt tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Docs/Licenses/Noto-Fonts.txt tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Docs/Licenses/PluggableTransports/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Docs/Licenses/PluggableTransports/LICENSE tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Docs/Licenses/PluggableTransports/LICENSE.CC0 tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Docs/Licenses/PluggableTransports/LICENSE.GO tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Docs/Licenses/PluggableTransports/LICENSE.SNOWFLAKE tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Docs/Licenses/Tor-Launcher.txt tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Docs/Licenses/Tor.txt tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Docs/Licenses/Torbutton.txt tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Docs/snowflake/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Docs/snowflake/README.md tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Tor/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Tor/PluggableTransports/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Tor/PluggableTransports/obfs4proxy tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Tor/PluggableTransports/snowflake-client tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Tor/libcrypto.so.1.1 tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Tor/libevent-2.1.so.7 tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Tor/libssl.so.1.1 tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Tor/libstdc++/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Tor/libstdc++/libstdc++.so.6 tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Tor/tor tor-browser_en-US/Browser/abicheck tor-browser_en-US/Browser/application.ini tor-browser_en-US/Browser/browser/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/browser/chrome/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/browser/chrome/icons/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/browser/chrome/icons/default/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128.png tor-browser_en-US/Browser/browser/chrome/icons/default/default16.png tor-browser_en-US/Browser/browser/chrome/icons/default/default32.png tor-browser_en-US/Browser/browser/chrome/icons/default/default48.png tor-browser_en-US/Browser/browser/chrome/icons/default/default64.png tor-browser_en-US/Browser/browser/features/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/browser/features/onboarding@mozilla.org.xpi tor-browser_en-US/Browser/browser/omni.ja tor-browser_en-US/Browser/defaults/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/defaults/pref/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/defaults/pref/channel-prefs.js tor-browser_en-US/Browser/dependentlibs.list tor-browser_en-US/Browser/execdesktop tor-browser_en-US/Browser/firefox tor-browser_en-US/Browser/firefox.real tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/Arimo-Bold.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/Arimo-BoldItalic.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/Arimo-Italic.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/Arimo-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/Cousine-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoEmoji-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoNaskhArabic-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansArmenian-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansBengali-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansBuginese-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansCanadianAboriginal-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansCherokee-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansDevanagari-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansEthiopic-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansGeorgian-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansGujarati-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansGurmukhi-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansHebrew-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansJP-Regular.otf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansKR-Regular.otf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansKannada-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansKhmer-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansLao-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansMalayalam-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansMongolian-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansMyanmar-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansOriya-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansSC-Regular.otf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansSinhala-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansTC-Regular.otf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansTamil-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansTelugu-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansThaana-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansThai-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansTibetan-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSansYi-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSerifArmenian-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSerifKhmer-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSerifLao-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/NotoSerifThai-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/STIXMath-Regular.otf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/Tinos-Bold.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/Tinos-BoldItalic.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/Tinos-Italic.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/Tinos-Regular.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/TwemojiMozilla.ttf tor-browser_en-US/Browser/gtk2/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/gtk2/libmozgtk.so tor-browser_en-US/Browser/icons/ tor-browser_en-US/Browser/icons/updater.png tor-browser_en-US/Browser/libfreeblpriv3.so tor-browser_en-US/Browser/liblgpllibs.so tor-browser_en-US/Browser/libmozavcodec.so tor-browser_en-US/Browser/libmozavutil.so tor-browser_en-US/Browser/libmozgtk.so tor-browser_en-US/Browser/libmozsandbox.so tor-browser_en-US/Browser/libmozsqlite3.so tor-browser_en-US/Browser/libmozwayland.so tor-browser_en-US/Browser/libnspr4.so tor-browser_en-US/Browser/libnss3.so tor-browser_en-US/Browser/libnssckbi.so tor-browser_en-US/Browser/libnssutil3.so tor-browser_en-US/Browser/libplc4.so tor-browser_en-US/Browser/libplds4.so tor-browser_en-US/Browser/libsmime3.so tor-browser_en-US/Browser/libsoftokn3.so tor-browser_en-US/Browser/libssl3.so tor-browser_en-US/Browser/libxul.so tor-browser_en-US/Browser/omni.ja tor-browser_en-US/Browser/platform.ini tor-browser_en-US/Browser/plugin-container tor-browser_en-US/Browser/precomplete tor-browser_en-US/Browser/removed-files tor-browser_en-US/Browser/start-tor-browser tor-browser_en-US/Browser/start-tor-browser.desktop tor-browser_en-US/Browser/tbb_version.json tor-browser_en-US/Browser/update-settings.ini tor-browser_en-US/Browser/updater tor-browser_en-US/Browser/updater.ini tor-browser_en-US/start-tor-browser.desktop a@a-HP-Compaq-dc7700-Convertible-Minitower:~/Downloads$ I presume the tar -xvJf is the command to unzip a file then as I now have an unzipped folder in my download folder and inside that there is a tor browser set up icon Dose anyone know the actual code to type into the terminal to install the set up icon please? as the artical in question is now instructing you to install it through the desk top icons |
I am now confused!
I am trying to start the set up from the terminal but its not reconized hear is the terminal a@a-HP-Compaq-dc7700-Convertible-Minitower:~$ cd Downloads a@a-HP-Compaq-dc7700-Convertible-Minitower:~/Downloads$ ls tor-browser_en-US tor-browser-linux32-10.5a6_en-US.tar.xz a@a-HP-Compaq-dc7700-Convertible-Minitower:~/Downloads$ cd tor-browser_en-US a@a-HP-Compaq-dc7700-Convertible-Minitower:~/Downloads/tor-browser_en-US$ ls Browser start-tor-browser.desktop a@a-HP-Compaq-dc7700-Convertible-Minitower:~/Downloads/tor-browser_en-US$ cd start-tor-browser.desktop bash: cd: start-tor-browser.desktop: Not a directory a@a-HP-Compaq-dc7700-Convertible-Minitower:~/Downloads/tor-browser_en-US$ ls Browser start-tor-browser.desktop a@a-HP-Compaq-dc7700-Convertible-Minitower:~/Downloads/tor-browser_en-US$ cd start-tor-browser.desktop bash: cd: start-tor-browser.desktop: Not a directory a@a-HP-Compaq-dc7700-Convertible-Minitower:~/Downloads/tor-browser_en-US$ |
You can't cd to start-tor-browser.desktop, since it is a regular file, not a directory.
Since you plan to use a browser, you should have a desktop environment. start-tor-browser.desktop contains the instructions for your desktop environment how the browser is started. Perhaps looking into the file reveals what you have to do to start it from the command line, but why don't you use your desktop as instructed by that web page? To see the contents of that file, try more start-tor-browser.desktop. |
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a@a-HP-Compaq-dc7700-Convertible-Minitower:~$ cd Downloads a@a-HP-Compaq-dc7700-Convertible-Minitower:~/Downloads$ ls tor-browser_en-US tor-browser-linux32-10.5a6_en-US.tar.xz a@a-HP-Compaq-dc7700-Convertible-Minitower:~/Downloads$ tor-browser_en-US tor-browser_en-US: command not found a@a-HP-Compaq-dc7700-Convertible-Minitower:~$ start-tor-browser.desktop start-tor-browser.desktop: command not found a@a-HP-Compaq-dc7700-Convertible-Minitower:~$ start-tor-browser.desktop. start-tor-browser.desktop.: command not found a@a-HP-Compaq-dc7700-Convertible-Minitower:~$ |
I suggest you find a fundamental Linux book or a tutorial for beginners. Also, since you ask for help, why don't you follow the suggestions?
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Or better yet, try the package torbrowser-launcher instead. It will take care of all of the above for you.
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In the appropriate directory, try
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./start-tor-browser.desktop But I agree with one of the previous posters: Since this is a GUI app anyhow, why don't you just double-click the .desktop file. Quote:
Anyhow, you should always go to the source for installation instructions. See post #2. PS: with the arrival of Q-Anon your username gains a whole new dimension of meaning! :D |
Use your file browser and double click as the howto suggested.
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$ chmod 764 start-tor-browser.desktop |
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However I don't think you've installed tor-browser. I think you should use the Linux Mint repository. Just as Iphone uses iTunes to download all apps and android uses google play, your Linux Mint distro has a repository to download all your apps. Including tor-browser. Installing from your repository is more secure than downloading software from a website. This link tells you what commands to use to install tor-browser from your repository computingforgeeks. Simply copy and paste the commands onto your terminal. You'll need to be logged in as superuser (Administrator). The tutorial isn't fantastic - but it should work. |
I have just tried installing it through the icon
I double click the set up icon and nothing happens! https://ibb.co/RBqWpw4 |
I would think your Tor Browser Setup would be executable but check to see if it is when you are in the folder shown in the image in your post. Right click Tor Browser Setup, click Properties, click Permissions and see that the box to the left of "Allow executing as a program" is checked.
The link with instructions posted above seems pretty simple to use, you might try that. |
Yes that box is ticked
One other thing is when I right click on the icon, one of the options is to open it with the text editor When you useully open something like that with a text editor it give you a computer code but instead its a set of instructions __________________________ #!/usr/bin/env ./Browser/execdesktop # # This file is a self-modifying .desktop file that can be run from the shell. # It preserves arguments and environment for the start-tor-browser script. # # Run './start-tor-browser.desktop --help' to display the full set of options. # # When invoked from the shell, this file must always be in a Tor Browser root # directory. When run from the file manager or desktop GUI, it is relocatable. # # After first invocation, it will update itself with the absolute path to the # current TBB location, to support relocation of this .desktop file for GUI # invocation. You can also add Tor Browser to your desktop's application menu # by running './start-tor-browser.desktop --register-app' # # If you use --register-app, and then relocate your TBB directory, Tor Browser # will no longer launch from your desktop's app launcher/dock. However, if you # re-run --register-app from inside that new directory, the script # will correct the absolute paths and re-register itself. # # This file will also still function if the path changes when TBB is used as a # portable app, so long as it is run directly from that new directory, either # via the shell or via the file manager. [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Name=Tor Browser Setup GenericName=Web Browser Comment=Tor Browser is +1 for privacy and −1 for mass surveillance Categories=Network;WebBrowser;Security; Exec=sh -c '"$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach || ([ ! -x "$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser ] && "$(dirname "$*")"/start-tor-browser --detach)' dummy %k X-TorBrowser-ExecShell=./Browser/start-tor-browser --detach Icon=web-browser StartupWMClass=Tor Browser |
I would change OP primary prompt to something easy to read and work with say
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Follow the directions in the tutorial you have been using and about step 12 or 13 is very clear on what to do.
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Given this is tor-browser it would be sensible to be cautious. It's best practice to download from the repo which the OP doesn't know anything about. The tutorial OP is using (from computersavvy's comment #26) is pretty bad for newbies since installing from repo is far easier. Also there hasn't been a gpg verification of the tor-browser package being downloaded. And now OP is going down a rabbit hole of using several complicated linux commands to execute something that has been unpacked. The tutorial link I gave earlier states a tor-browser repo needs to be added to /etc/apt/sourceslist.d. Perhaps tor-browser won't launch without it? |
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