[Discuss] Trying to install Tor on Fedora

[nancythewriter7 at gmail.com (Nancy Allison)]

Hi, Rich.

Thanks for these instructions.

I went to the tor site and downloaded the files associated with the penguin
cartoon. I assumed that was Linux. I now have a directory containing these
two files:


   - tor-browser-linux64-8.0.9_en-US -- Oh, this is a folder name.
   - tor-browser-linux64-8.0.9_en-US.tar.xz -- this is a file that looks
   like a box


I don't know how to verify the PGP and am skipping that step because I am
foolhardy.

I've opened the folder. It contains two items:


   - A folder called Browser
   - a file called start-tor-browser.desktop -- I doubleclicked this, and
   it is now in a text editor.


It is full of instructions that assume a greater level of technical
knowledge than I have.

Rich, what do I do now? Thanks very much.

--Nancy


On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 7:29 PM Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 7 May 2019 18:47:59 -0400
> Nancy Allison <nancythewriter7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What do I do to make this work? Thanks for all help.
>
> 1. Throw out anything that tells you to use anyone's package manager.
> I don't know whether or not they're lying and neither do you. If you're
> using Tor Browser then by definition the only organization that can be
> trusted is Tor Project.
>
> 2. Go to torproject.org and download the tar.xz file.
> 2a. Verify the GPG signature.
>
> 3. Unpack the tar.gz file.
>
> 4. Run the start-tor-browser script.
>
> --
> Rich Pieri
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