Questions tagged [ubuntu]
Ubuntu is an operating system which is based on GNU/Linux.
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Can't configure my Onion resource
I have Ubuntu Server 24.04 installed on my virtual machine (Oracle Virtual Box). Apache 2 web server with a single website on it, without virtual hosts. I want to make my website an onion resource and ...
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Linux Ubuntu error
How do I fix the following error
> [stage-1 7/11] RUN addgroup --system -gid ${TOR_LINUX_GID} tor && adduser --system --ingroup tor -uid ${TOR_LINUX_UID} tor: ...
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Middle/Guard relay:WARN Bad password or authentication cookie on controller WARN Your server has not managed to confirm reachability for its ORPort(s)
OS: Ubuntu Server 22.04.2
I'm running a tor relay on an old laptop. I'm managing it on my main computer with ssh. From my perspective this is ideal because in theory I could manage multiple nodes from ...
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Download Error 404 while running torbrowser-launcher on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. tor-browser-linux64-12.0.2_en-US.tar.xz.asc not available
I'm trying to install Tor browser from this article over here.
I'm using methon no. 2: Install Tor browser launcher using APT (Alternate Method).
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, so I've made sure the ...
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How can I create a site on the tor network? PHP
I programmed on my PC a website in php using xampp and mysql server, but how do I send these files contained in my folder, which is located at:
(ex: htdocs/my finished site),
to the tor network?
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Problem with adding gpg while installing Tor browser: Permission denied
I've been following instructions from the torproject.org to install Tor on Ubuntu Focal Fossa.
While running the following code:
wget -qO- https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/...
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Why does Tor Metrics show my bridge offline after a few days?
I've been running a Tor Bridge for about a month now. Every day I check the system logs to ensure the bridge hasn't broken. I also check Tor Metrics to see the data on my bridge. Twice now, I have ...
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Tor Browser doesn't survive gnome-shell restart
Tor Browser 11.0.9 on stock Ubuntu 20.04 with Gnome 3.36
I don't remember when it happened, but now Tor Browser is closed on gnome-shell restart (via alt-F2: r).
I remember that it survived it earlier ...
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How to host TOR in remote server to use as proxy
I am doing web scraping, and I am using tor as my proxy service. I am using ubuntu 20.4.x and python 3.9.
As I have installed tor in my local system, I am using:
proxies = {
'http': 'socks5://127....
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The first time I started tor through the terminal, it got stuck at 5%, but clicking on the tor software worked. In China
Sep 15 20:59:48.986 [notice] Tor v0.2.4.27 (git-412e3f7dc9c6c01a) running on Linux with Libevent 2.0.21-stable and OpenSSL 1.0.1f.
Sep 15 20:59:48.986 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! ...
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Running a Tor Bridge Relay on Ubuntu
I am trying to set up a bridge relay on my ubuntu 20.04 system but getting stuck at step 3. Edit your Tor config file, usually located at /etc/tor/torrc and replace its content with:
When I open the ...
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Cannot run tor as a su on Ubuntu 20.04 with an apache2 server
I am trying to set up a .onion website but I am experiencing some issues in doing so.
I set up a apache2 server and configed the torrc file, but when I save the changes on the torrc file and try to ...
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External links do not open on Tor browser
Running Ubuntu 20.10 and I have made Tor my default browser. It works well except when I click on external links (from an application, say ULauncher or a ebook reader).
Then I get an error message:
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SIGNAL response contained unrecognized status code: 514
I'm trying to use tor as a proxy for a few HTTP requests as described in Stealthy Crawling using Scrapy, Tor and Privoxy, but instead of privoxy, I'm using tor's built-in HTTP tunnel. This is my tor ...
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Problem running tor services
New to creating Tor_Hidden_Services. I created a website on Mobirise software and i wanted to run the site in Tor_Hidden_Services. I started with a tutorial from a friend which with his instructions, ...
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low bandwidth on relay
My relay has dropped all its throughput speed and I cant see what is causing a problem? can anyone offer any pointers?
Relay in question :
https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/...
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How to set Tor Browser as default browser in Ubuntu, please?
I try to set tor web browser as default application in Ubuntu 18.04.
After that I have installed it via ppa...
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:micahflee/ppa
sudo apt install torbrowser-launcher
I've ...
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tor-browser stuck in restart-required loop
I'm stuck in a loop of "Sorry. We just need to do one small thing to keep going." and restarts.
I have spent hours on this and my seach-fu is not bad, bu to no avail.
It happened first after an ...
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what is causing "Port 443 is already being handled; removing" error in the Tor debug.log?
After following the Tor Bridge installation docs and the download instructions for Ubuntu, I've successfully confirmed connection to the Tor network via a Raspberry Pi 2 with Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic ...
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snap and apt usage to install the tor browser bundle?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but neither snap nor apt are suitable for installing current versions of the tor browser?
I see the downloads are available directly from the tor site.
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How to monitor traffic usage on a Tor bridge on Linux?
I'll buy a small server and will install some Ubuntu distro on it, and among other things I'll install a Tor bridge that won't be an exit replay. I also will use it as a SOCKS proxy for a Firefox, I ...
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Tor Browser launching very slowly
I am using Tor Browser on Lunx Mint 19.1. In the beginning it worked seamlessly, but in the last few days it took several minutes to start up.
To understand it better I started 'torbrowser-launcher' ...
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Unable to run TOR from terminal (Ubuntu)
When I try to run TOR from the terminal, this message appears:
Jun 01 00:17:19.354 [notice] Tor 0.3.2.10 (git-0edaa32732ec8930) running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.0g, Zlib 1.2....
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Run both bridge and relay & control with nyx
I am attempting to run both a relay and a bridge on the same server. I have gotten it to start with tor -f /etc/tor1/torrc but I'm not sure it's staying running, and I'm not sure that'll run on boot. ...
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Setting up relay on Ubuntu 16.04
This is the content of torrc file configuration:
SocksPort 0
RunAsDaemon 1
ORPort 9001
ORPort [2409:4070:219c:d7f8:94cf:ac05:ee3b:b21c]:9001
ContactInfo itstrulyjenni(at)gmail(dot)com
#DirPort 9050
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I have specified a DirPort (80) in my torrc, and it is allowed in UFW but metrics.torproject.org/rs.html does not list it
This seems to started after I specified an IPv6 address for my ORPort.
Everything server side indicates my DirPort is reachable, but Tor Metrics (not tor on my server) says it is unreachable (...
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Failed to fetch Trusty binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 138.201.14.197 80]
using: apt-get update
results:
Failed to fetch http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/dists/trusty/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 138.201.14.197 80]
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
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Which repo for tor relay on Ubuntu Artful?
Tried to update a tor relay on a machine running Ubuntu Artful, but the repos at https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org artful/main are gone missing. Any ideas which repos I should use instead? ...
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Hidden files are hidden (reproducible)
Specification:
OS: Ubuntu 16.04
Tor Browser Bundle: upgraded from 7.x to 8.0.3 (latest version)
Issue (summary):
FileChooser.show-hidden is set to false after save and open dialog is canceled or ...
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Periodically load new profile on Ubuntu when running daemon
I am running tor as a daemon on a Ubuntu server. I want to periodically and automatically refresh the identity I am using in order to get a new exit node.
The only way I've found to do this is to ...
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Multiple icons shown on launcher
After upgrade from Tor Browser from 7.X to 8.0 I now have two Tor Browser icons on the launcher. How can I remove one of them?
OS: Ubuntu 16.04
Additional info: the top one does not respond to ...
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How can one direct traffic through tor when using terminal in Ubuntu
I'm using Ubuntu with tor browser and would like to direct all traffic through tor, most specifically redirecting ALL traffic from terminal through tor?
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Tor downtime from multiple processes
I’ve left my Tor relay (run on an AWS EC2 instance, Xenial Xerius Ubuntu) alone for a few days, and it operated for a few days. The relay then started counting downtime, and the “last seen” timestamp ...
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How can you sftp over tor?
I was wondering how I can upload files over the tor network. How can you sftp over tor?
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How to restore GnuPG proxy configuration to default?
I was trying to verify TOR package signature with this command:
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 0x4E2C6E8793298290
I got this response
gpg: requesting key 0x4E2C6E8793298290 ...
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How to use multiple profiles with Tor?
Firefox allows for the ability to use multiple profiles by starting the browser from the command line as such:
firefox --ProfileManager
Or more directly:
firefox --CreateProfile
However, despite ...
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Manually firewall Ubuntu for Tor?
Can someone offer a brief walk-through for firewalling Ubuntu 16 with UFW for tor. I only want to allow tor traffic out on my device. I'm not sure if it's even possible with UFW.
# ufw default deny ...
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Tor relay - Interrupt: we have stopped accepting new connections, and will shut down in 30 seconds. Interrupt again to exit now
I am trying to run a tor relay on Ubuntu from source.
I have done the following:
Installed stable version (0.3.1.8) (as written in the documentations)
Used "apt source" to get the source code
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Application request when we haven't used client functionality lately
Just glanced at my logs and noticed 50+ messages like this from tor. What exactly do these messages mean? I don't think I was using tor at the time the messages occurred. What might've invoked them?
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Tor Browser 7.0.9 can't print page to file
My desktop OS is Fedora 26 and the Tor browser is 7.0.9.
I found tor browser can't print as print to file, it produces nothing. The print preview looks nice but doesn't produce any file (PDF or PS) ...
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Installing torsocks and apt-transport-tor in Zesty
It seems torsocks and apt-transport-tor don't have installation candidates in Zesty (17.04). I just spent an hr installing and configuring Zesty to my liking only to find these packages aren't ...
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Tor Browser won't load in Ubuntu 16.04
I am using Ubuntu 16.04. I have tried to download Tor Browser from the Tor website and using the Tor Browser package from the Ubuntu software application. Each time I get a message titled Signature ...
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Problems setting up Tor bridges and relays with UK internet BT Home Hub 6
I have been trying to set up a relay from a laptop running Ubuntu 16.04 connected to the internet through a BT Home Hub 6, and am having a problem reported as being with Port 9001 not being reachable. ...
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Tor upgraded to 0.3.0.10 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS but Atlas still says "Outdated Tor version"
When Atlas told me that my Tor node was running an "Outdated Tor version" I upgraded Tor on my node (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Trusty) system.
Atlas now tells me that my platform is "Tor 0.3.0.10 on Linux" (...
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typical way to run tails virtualized on ubuntu?
To run on Ubuntu just use KVM to run tails?
If you are a bit lazy like me, the idea to reboot your system seems
inconvenient. But with the help of QEMU there is an easy to use
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Why does the tor daemon start automatically in Ubuntu/Debian?
I'd like to know why the tor daemon autostarts and whether it's safe to disable it from starting automatically.
Here users asked how to disable it for Ubuntu and Debian.
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Modifying torrc for openvpn?
When using a VPN, should I make any changes to my torrc? Such as defining the default route on (tun0) 10.4.0.1?
Using Ubuntu 16.
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How to update Tor Browser
Following the instructions at How to run multiple Tor browsers with different IPs? I now have multiple folders that can host a different Tor Browser instance.
How can I update all of them on Ubuntu ...
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tor v3.x in xenial?
just saw the latest posts on the torproject blog, i see tor v3.x is out, but after running apt-get update there isn't a tor update?
> apt-cache policy tor
tor:
Installed: 0.2.9.10-1~xenial+1
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Upgrading Tor on Ubuntu as a relay operator
I have just come across an article stating that Tor has a new version released 0.3.0.6. and is stable.
1st question how do I find out what version of Tor I am running.
2nd question how do I update ...
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