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When I tried to run ~/tor-browser/Browser/TorBrowser/Tor/tor, it displays the message: "error while loading shared libraries: libevent-2.1.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" The libraries libevent-2.1.so.6, libssl.so.1.1, libcrypto.so.1.1 and libstdc++.so.6 are nearby, but the Tor binary doesn't find them. LD_PRELOAD doesn't help.

The fact is that I already have a system Tor ("systemctl start tor" on port 9050). I need to run another independent copy of the console Tor (on port 9150). They should not interfere with each other. I know that I can launch the Tor browser, but it is very fat. There is another option to run console Tor in Wine, but I would prefer the native way. I use Ubuntu 16.04, Tor Browser 9.0.5.

I spied on the processes while starting the Tor browser. Most likely the command line should be: ~/tor-browser/Browser/TorBrowser/Tor/tor --defaults-torrc ~/tor-browser/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/torrc-defaults -f ~/tor-browser/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/torrc --DataDirectory ~/tor-browser/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor --GeoIPFile ~/tor-browser/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/geoip --GeoIPv6File ~/tor-browser/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/geoip6 --SocksPort 127.0.0.1:9150

The site has similar questions. But there advised just to run the tor binary. Apparently, this worked before, but no longer.

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  • Are you saying that you want to run two separate instances of the tor daemon? One that would work on port 9050 and one that would would on port 9150?
    – elmerjfudd
    Commented Mar 11, 2020 at 13:14
  • Yes, two demons at the same time with different settings.
    – denislpd
    Commented Mar 11, 2020 at 14:44
  • Can you add what you use for the LD_PRELOAD? I don't see why this shouldn't work. And make sure you're running the tor binary while your working directory is ~/tor-browser/Browser/TorBrowser/Tor, then you shouldn't even need the LD_PRELOAD.
    – Steve
    Commented Mar 11, 2020 at 19:10
  • Running from the working directory didn't work either.
    – denislpd
    Commented Mar 12, 2020 at 7:52

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It works:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/tor-browser/Browser/TorBrowser/Tor ~/tor-browser/Browser/TorBrowser/Tor/tor --defaults-torrc ~/tor-browser/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/torrc-defaults -f ~/tor-browser/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/torrc --DataDirectory ~/tor-browser/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor --GeoIPFile ~/tor-browser/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/geoip --GeoIPv6File ~/tor-browser/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/geoip6 --SocksPort 9170

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This isn't going to be possible to do directly with the tor daemon. However, you do have some options.

The easiest option is to simply create a VM that will run the second instance with it's own configuration.

The second option is to run it in in a Docker container. This might be harder to set up if you've never used a container tool before. This will be faster and use less system resources though.

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  • Unfortunately, Docker is not available for the i686 platform. VM is not the best solution, Wine is better. But, is there really no way to run a portable tor?
    – denislpd
    Commented Mar 11, 2020 at 16:37
  • wine is a hack. It's goal is to present a Windows-compatible API to run Windows applications. It has no real security. If you really want to go down that route try Tor Expert Bundle: torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/9.0.5/tor-win32-0.4.2.6.zip. I don't think anyone will try to help running that with Wine though. My suggestion: look into using chroot. It's the original Linux container and it will work on 32-bit systems.
    – elmerjfudd
    Commented Mar 11, 2020 at 17:24
  • Wine works, but it's a bad solution, of course.
    – denislpd
    Commented Mar 12, 2020 at 7:53

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