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Old 01-03-2021, 06:40 PM   #1
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command line needed for installing a program


Hi

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
 
Old 01-03-2021, 07:07 PM   #2
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See https://tb-manual.torproject.org/installation/.
 
Old 01-03-2021, 07:09 PM   #3
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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
 
Old 01-04-2021, 01:06 AM   #4
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This one looks like a good starting point: https://www.how2shout.com/how-to/ins...-terminal.html
I followed the instructions but was unable to install
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$
 
Old 01-04-2021, 01:22 AM   #5
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If you're using a Debian-based distro, just install the torbrowser-launcher package from the repos.
 
Old 01-04-2021, 01:30 AM   #6
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If you're using a Debian-based distro,
???
 
Old 01-04-2021, 01:39 AM   #7
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I saw the Ubuntu logo in your profile so I assumed you were using something Debian-based.

Last edited by shruggy; 01-04-2021 at 01:41 AM.
 
Old 01-04-2021, 02:42 AM   #8
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I saw the Ubuntu logo in your profile so I assumed you were using something Debian-based.
No sir! I am using Linux Mint
 
Old 01-04-2021, 03:04 AM   #9
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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?
 
Old 01-04-2021, 04:06 AM   #10
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a@a-HP-Compaq-dc7700-Convertible-Minitower:~/Downloads$ tar -xvJF tor-browser-linux32-10.5a6_en-US.tar.xz
You have a typo! Change the capital 'F' to lowercase 'f'

Code:
tar -xvJf tor-browser-linux32-10.5a6_en-US.tar.xz
 
Old 01-04-2021, 04:46 PM   #11
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You have a typo! Change the capital 'F' to lowercase 'f'

Code:
tar -xvJf tor-browser-linux32-10.5a6_en-US.tar.xz
Thanks! will try that as soon as my video is compressed on my win xp O.S and I can reboot
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
 
Old 01-04-2021, 04:53 PM   #12
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This one looks like a good starting point: https://www.how2shout.com/how-to/ins...-terminal.html

Quote:
Originally Posted by aiszisz View Post
You have a typo! Change the capital 'F' to lowercase 'f'

Code:
tar -xvJf tor-browser-linux32-10.5a6_en-US.tar.xz
I have just copied and pasted it from the original site and it reads
tar -xvJF tor-browser-linux64-7.5.6_en-US.tar.xz’

Therefore they have made the typo and should be informed about it
 
Old 01-04-2021, 05:29 PM   #13
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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

Last edited by jail bill gates from hel; 01-04-2021 at 05:36 PM.
 
Old 01-04-2021, 05:43 PM   #14
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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$
 
Old 01-04-2021, 08:18 PM   #15
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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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