torbrowser-launcher completely broken in all Ubuntu versions

[Brian Murray]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 02:11:30AM +0200, Rolando Gorgs wrote:
> Hello together,
> 
> I kindly ask you to update the torbrowser-launcher package to version 0.3.3
> in all Ubuntu versions. All torbrowser-launcher versions below 0.3.3 are
> fundamentally broken and refuse to start with a signature error. It's not
> possible to get a working torbrowser with them. I'm affected with Ubuntu
> 18.04 myself, but there are also several reports regarding 20.04 and other
> Ubuntu versions:
> 
> https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser-launcher/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed
> 
> The author of Tor Browser Launcher now recommends installing the flathub
> version instead of the broken outdated distribution packages:
> 
> https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser-launcher/issues/533
> 
> However, since the distribution packages of torbrowser-launcher are the
> recommended installation method for Torbrowser in many Ubuntu manuals I
> know, I' d really prefer to have working packages in repositoy again.
> 
> I'm writing this mail instead of opening a simple bug report, because I
> know that having a working Torbrowser is an important security aspect for
> many Linux users.
> 
> Please fix this as soon as you can!

This is actively being worked on:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/torbrowser-launcher/+bug/1856895

Thanks for helping to verify the fix!

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Brian Murray