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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$
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?
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
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.
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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