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Asked: 2018-02-05 09:12:23 +0800 CST

Tor browser setup fails on Lubuntu 17.0.1

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I've downloaded Tor Browser Bundle from https://www.torproject.org/download/download and extracted it to /home.

When I cd to tor-browser_en-US$ start-tor-browser and run start-tor-browser I get 

command not found

I can see the file start-tor-browser.desktop is in the directory. If I double-click the file in File Manager I get a spinning tooltip for a few seconds and then nothing.

I've tried changing the Permissions property Execute to Anyone. I've deleted and re-downloaded the TBB. I also tried sudo chmod +x start-tor-browser, but this also gave me 

No such file or directory

I've noticed tab autocomplete also doesn't pick up the file. It's as if my system can't see it.

lubuntu tor-browser

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Try ./start-tor-browser.desktop in the tor-browser directory.

    As the command is not in your path, you need to prefix it with an absolute path. . points to current directory, so ./ effectively means file in current directory.

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