Tor Browser don’t start.

[Member blue digit]

I just made an USB-Live whit antiX-17_x64-full.iso (persistence enabled for home and root)

downloaded and unpacked the Tor Browser (64 bit version) from Tor Project page,
but if I use the included start-tor-browser.desktop icon to start the program, it gives me this message back:

Unsupported escape character in 'sh -c '"$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach || ([ ! -x "$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser ] && "$(dirname "$*")"/start-tor-browser --detach)' dummy %k' in '/home/demo/tor-browser_en-US/start-tor-browser.desktop'

What am I supposed to do to make it work?!?

• This topic was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by blue digit.

[Anonymous]

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Please post the URL of the link where you found TorBrowser available for download.

Please post the filename of what you “downloaded and unpacked”.

Please recheck whether TorProject states this is the advisable (the only?) way to install TorBrowser.
IIRC, a packaged-for-debian (debfile) is available for download, and is the recommend way to install.

Please understand that yours is a “general software” inquiry, not specific to antiX17 (subforum where you had posted this topic). Because it is not pre-installed, and few among the forum participants here (AFAIK) are using TorBorwser… maybe no one here is familiar with how to “make it work”.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Install tor via package-installer app.

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[Member blue digit]

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Ok, sorry to have missed the right place to post, I’ll be more accurate in future! 😉
URL I’ve got TB from: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
File I’ve downloaded: tor-browser-linux64-7.0.6_en-US.tar.xz

Here is what they state on the dl page:
“Tor Browser lets you use Tor on Microsoft Windows, Apple MacOS, or GNU/Linux without needing to install any software.
It can run off a USB flash drive, comes with a pre-configured web browser to protect your anonymity, and is self-contained (portable).”
That’s why I’d simply unpacked the TB folder to my user folder (previously worked fine on my MX-16 install).
Did not find any deb package there… anyway there is a way to install tor from debian repos and I’ll give a try.
I’ll let you know about. Thank you for such a fast answer/support!

[Forum Admin BitJam]

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It worked fine here in antiX-17 live using: tor-browser-linux64-7.0.10_en-US.tar.xz from the site you linked to.

I don’t know if it makes any difference but I unpacked it in the Live-usb-storage/ directory, changed to the new directory it created and then ran ./start-tor-browser.desktop. Note too that this was version 7.0.10 not 7.0.6.

Are you using an encrypted live-usb? If you are concerned about privacy, it gives you an extra layer of protection.

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[Member blue digit]

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Yes, the only way to make it work seems to be the one described by BitJam, so I think to close the tread as “solved” by now.
Tanks to all of you!

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