[Discuss] Trying to install Tor on Fedora

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

Typo in my previous message, The button label is actually "Run", not ":Run".


On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 11:04 AM John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:

> The "start-tor-browser" script you need to run is inside the "Browser"
> folder. If you double-click it, it opens a dialog box asking if you want to
> Run in Terminal, Display, Cancel, or Run.
>
> Click ":Run", and after a few seconds, the Tor browser window will open.
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 7:57 PM Nancy Allison <nancythewriter7 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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