Objective
To following article will explain how to download, install and use Tor Browser on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux.
The aim for Tor Browser is to protect your online privacy, hence from this reason make sure that your Tor downloaded has not been tempered with by properly verifying Tor Browser’s signing signatures otherwise Tor Browser have an absolutely opposite effect for you.
Operating System and Software Versions
- Operating System: – Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver
- Software: – Tor Browser 7.5 or higher
Requirements
Privileged access to your Ubuntu System as root or via sudo
command is required.
Conventions
- # – requires given linux commands to be executed with root privileges either directly as a root user or by use of
sudo
command - $ – requires given linux commands to be executed as a regular non-privileged user
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Instructions
Install Tor Browser using apt command
Ti simplify the installation of Tor Browser on Ubuntu Linux the Tor Browser launcher is now part of the standard Ubuntu repository. This makes it extremely simple to install Tor Browser on Ubuntu.
Open up terminal and execute the following apt
command to install Tor Browser Launcher:
$ sudo apt install torbrowser-launcher
To start Tor Browser run Tor browser use the start menu and search for Tor Browser
:
Alternatively, you can start Tor Browser directly from a command line:
$ torbrowser-launcher
Manual Tor Browser installation on UBuntu
If from any reason the above automatic installation of Tor browser fails, or you wish to get the latest version, you can install Tor Browser manually.
Download Tor Browser
The first step is to head over to the official tor browser website and download the latest Linux Tor Browser package and relevant *.asc
signature.
Please be aware that the tor project is often a target for hackers and DDos attacks. From this reason we are now going to check a correct signing signatures of our downloaded Tor Browser package.
Assuming that you have downloaded the tor browser package and signatures to your /~Downloads
directory first import “Tor Browser Developers” signing key. Execute the bellow command:
$ gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys D1483FA6C3C07136 gpg: key 4E2C6E8793298290: public key "Tor Browser Developers (signing key)" imported gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: imported: 1
Navigate to Downloads
directory and confirm that both, Tor Browser package and its signature are present:
$ ls tor-browser-linux64-7.5_en-US.tar.xz tor-browser-linux64-7.5_en-US.tar.xz.asc
Next verify signature of Tor Browser package:
$ gpg --verify tor-browser-linux64-7.5_en-US.tar.xz.asc tor-browser-linux64-7.5_en-US.tar.xz
gpg: Signature made Tue 23 Jan 2018 11:50:13 AEDT
gpg: using RSA key D1483FA6C3C07136
gpg: Good signature from "Tor Browser Developers (signing key) " [unknown]
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
Primary key fingerprint: EF6E 286D DA85 EA2A 4BA7 DE68 4E2C 6E87 9329 8290
Subkey fingerprint: A430 0A6B C93C 0877 A445 1486 D148 3FA6 C3C0 7136
Check for a Good signature from "Tor Browser Developers
text on the above Line 4. All seems to be in order!
Extract Tor Browser
Still in the Downloads
directory, extract the Tor Browser package into a root of your home directory:newly
$ tar xJpf tor-browser-linux64-7.5_en-US.tar.xz -C ~/
Start Tor Browser
To start the Tor Browser on your Ubuntu Linux box, change to your home directory and navigate to the newly extracted tor browser directory using cd
command :
$ cd $ cd tor-browser_en-US/
From here start tor browser:
$ ./start-tor-browser.desktop
Alternatively, register tor browser as a local application, thus create an icon shortcut accessible via menu launcher:
$ ./start-tor-browser.desktop --register-app