TOR Browser Bundle

[Doug]

On 09/08/2014 06:19 PM, Rusty Shakelford wrote:
> Is there any good step by step documentation on installing the TOR browser bundle on Ubuntu?
>
> What I found was over my head and I can't seem to follow it well enough to make it work for me.
>
> So far I have downloaded the file
> tor-browser-linux64-3.6.5_en-US.tar.xz
>
> Maybe there is a software program for Ubuntu that will install TAR files for me?
>
Google's your friend!
I hadn't heard of this version, but Google tells me:

(First)

Modern tar recognizes the format by itself! One command works with any 
supported compression method.

tar xf archive.tar.xz
tar xf archive.tar.gz
tar xf archive.tar

etc.

(And then)
	
if you run into tar: xz: Cannot exec: No such file or directory, install 
xz-utils: sudo apt-get install xz-utils

(And then again)

tar -xJf file.pkg.tar.xz

The -J is the flag that specifically deals with .xz files.

One of these should work.

Then you should be able to use the normal install routine.
I don't think you can _directly_ install a compressed file; you
have to uncompress (extract) it first.

--doug