
The Tor Browser team signs Tor Browser releases. Now you can start Tor Browser by pressing Ctrl + Alt + B. In order to fill in an entry in the field after Shortcut press any easy to remember keyboard shortcut combination (e.g. In the field after Command type: sh -c '"/home/your-username/Downloads/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/start-tor-browser" -detach || ( & "$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser -detach)' dummy %k

In the field after Name type Tor Browser. Go to Settings -> Keyboard -> View and Customize Shortcuts -> Set Custom Shortcut. 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. Remember the directory where you extracted the Tor Browser files. 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 location where you downloaded the tor-browser-linu圆4-xx.x.xx_ archive. Set a keyboard shortcut to start Tor Browser Start Tor Browser from the command line by running. Right-click on start-tor-browser, open Properties and change the permission to Allow executing file as program by clicking the checkbox. Navigate to the newly extracted Tor Browser directory.
TOR BROWSER INSTALL UBUNTU ARCHIVE
When the download is complete, extract the archive with the command tar -xf or with the Archive Manager. The steps for verifying the file's signature are shown below. (Recommended) Verify the file's signature. Navigate to the Tor Browser download page. When I updated the Tor Browser Developers signing key I noticed that the key that I updated will expire in less than one year.
TOR BROWSER INSTALL UBUNTU MANUAL
These are the instructions from the official Tor Browser User Manual in case the Ubuntu torbrowser-launcher package hasn't updated the gpg key that is required to install Tor Browser. Select Run if Nautilus asks you how you want to execute the `start-tor-browser' script.

You should see "Good signature." in your terminal if successful (if not, download the file again and try once more): gpg: Signature made Mon 06:48:06 PM UTC Verify that the signature file was produced when their GPG Key signed your Tor Browser Bundle download (adjust the commands if version is not "5.0.1" or language is not "en"): cd ~/path/to/TBB_directory

Do not use the packages in Ubuntu's universe.Īccording to The Tor Project, "In the past they have not reliably been updated.
