Installing Tor

Walker34

Hi,
I am trying to install Tor browser in Ubuntu 12.04 and I have got to the stage of having it decompressed and have 5 folders and "start-tor-browser", however when I double click it Ubuntu defaults to a text editor instead of runing it. What should I use to run it....TIA John

degsie

Is it marked as executable? Try 'chmod +x' the file.

Walker34

degsie wrote: »

Is it marked as executable? Try 'chmod +x' the file.

Hi,
Its listed as a program.I tried to run "~$ /Desktop/Tor chmod +x start-tor-browser" in the same directory as the program and it done nothing....it just went back to the folder I was in.It shows up in green when I run "ls" in the directory its in.
John

Walker34

Hi,
"Then it did what it was supposed to"......which is??

Walker34

I get "ls: cannot access /home/john/Desktop/tor/start-tor-browser: No such file or directory" I also tried it without the "Is" and checked that the file and directory do exist....and they do! I am pasting "ls -l ~/Desktop/tor/start-tor-browser" into a terminal and hitting return......in reply I get "ls: cannot access /home/john/Desktop/tor/start-tor-browser: No such file or directory"

Walker34

Sorry for delay...had to go next door and got delayed. That WORKED perfectly, I now have Tor running fine in Linux.I must check over how ye did that,its prolly straight forward enough, but when yer a newbie, everything in Linux takes a bit of getting used to.Thanks a million for the help.
John

Walker34

bedlam wrote: »

Ideally you should be able to just double click the start-tor-browser rather than do it via the command line.

Thanks for the help bedlam....its appreciated.Any idea why I cant run it by double clicking "start-tor-browser".TIA John

excollier

I tried Tor on various Linux distros. The only website that refused to connect was this one, but maybe that's my connection. All my other bookmarks worked ok though.