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Install Tor Browser

Set a keyboard shortcut to start Tor Browser

Remember the location where you downloaded the tor-browser-linux64-xx.x.xx_xx-xx.tar.xz archive. In this example I will call this location /home/your-username/Downloads/ which is the default location of the Downloads directory in Ubuntu if you replace your-username by your own user name.

Remember the directory where you extracted the Tor Browser files. In this example I will call this directory /home/your-username/Downloads/tor-browser_en-US/ where en is the abbreviation for the language and US is the abbreviation for the nation which could be different depending on your language and nation.

Go to Settings -> Keyboard -> View and Customize Shortcuts -> Set Custom Shortcut.

• In the field after Name type Tor Browser.

• In the field after Command type: sh -c '"/home/your-username/Downloads/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/start-tor-browser" --detach || ([ ! -x "/home/your-username/Downloads/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/start-tor-browser" ] && "$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach)' dummy %k

• In order to fill in an entry in the field after Shortcut press any easy to remember keyboard shortcut combination (e.g. Ctrl + Alt +B).

Now you can start Tor Browser by pressing Ctrl + Alt +B.

1. Navigate to the Tor Browser download page.

2. Download the GNU/Linux .tar.xz file

3. (Recommended) Verify the file's signature. The steps for verifying the file's signature are shown below.

4. When the download is complete, extract the archive with the command tar -xf [TB archive] or with the Archive Manager.

5. Navigate to the newly extracted Tor Browser directory. Right-click on start-tor-browser.desktop, open Properties and change the permission to Allow executing file as program by clicking the checkbox, and also right-click on start-tor-browser, open Properties and change the permission to Allow executing file as program by clicking the checkbox. Double-click the icon to start up Tor Browser for the first time.

6. Alternatively, from inside the Tor Browser directory, you can also start Tor Browser from the command line by running:

    ./start-tor-browser
   

1. Navigate to the Tor Browser download page.

2. Download the GNU/Linux .tar.xz file

3. (Recommended) Verify the file's signature. The steps for verifying the file's signature are shown below.

4. When the download is complete, extract the archive with the command tar -xf [TB archive] or with the Archive Manager.

5. Navigate to the newly extracted Tor Browser directory. Right-click on start-tor-browser, open Properties and change the permission to Allow executing file as program by clicking the checkbox.

6. Start Tor Browser from the command line by running:

   ./start-tor-browser
   

1. Navigate to the Tor Browser download page.

2. Download the GNU/Linux .tar.xz file

3. (Recommended) Verify the file's signature. The steps for verifying the file's signature are shown below.

4. When the download is complete, extract the archive with the command tar -xf [TB archive] or with the Archive Manager.

5. Navigate to the newly extracted Tor Browser directory. Right click on start-tor-browser.desktop, open Properties and change the permission to Allow executing file as program by clicking the checkbox. Double-click the icon to start up Tor Browser for the first time.

6. Alternatively, from inside the Tor Browser directory, you can also start from the command line by running:

    ./start-tor-browser
   

1. Navigate to the Tor Browser download page.

2. Download the GNU/Linux .tar.xz file

3. (Recommended) Verify the file's signature. The steps for verifying the file's signature are shown below.

4. When the download is complete, extract the archive with the command tar -xf [TB archive] or with the Archive Manager.

5. Navigate to the newly extracted Tor Browser directory. Right-click on start-tor-browser.desktop, open Properties and change the permission to Allow executing file as program by clicking the checkbox, and also right-click on start-tor-browser, open Properties and change the permission to Allow executing file as program by clicking the checkbox. Double-click the icon to start up Tor Browser for the first time.

6. Alternatively, from inside the Tor Browser directory, you can also start Tor Browser from the command line by running:

    ./start-tor-browser