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tropicalia

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[SOLVED]Tor Browser Installation

I was planning to follow the Tor Wiki steps but I'm stuck in the first step. In the Arch Wiki it recommends to install the torbrowser-launcher and when you click in the link it takes you to an unmaintained outdated version of the Tor Browser application.

Here is the link for the instructions: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Tor#Installation

Should we be following the supported method of installing the Tor Browser with the portable .tar.xz instead?
https://support.torproject.org/tor-brow … ing/#linux

Thanks

Last edited by tropicalia (2025-12-03 05:07:23)

system72

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Re: [SOLVED]Tor Browser Installation

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_build_system

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tropicalia

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Re: [SOLVED]Tor Browser Installation

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_build_system

Can you please care to develop?

Is the Tor Installation Wiki outdated?

Edit: Nevermind, I think I understand what you tried to say. The package is not outdated.

Last edited by tropicalia (2025-11-26 21:12:24)

Ambos

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Re: [SOLVED]Tor Browser Installation

I installed the Tor Browser through the torbrowser-launcher. It's been flagged as out-of-date because the Github mirror and the original Gitlab repository tagged multiple releases since then. But it doesn't really matter as the launcher is only used to download and install the latest version of the Tor Browser inside your home directory and not as a system package. For example, while I have torbrowser-launcher 0.3.7-3 installed, the browser itself is on 15.0.2, which is indeed the latest version.

espritlibre

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Re: [SOLVED]Tor Browser Installation

well actually it does matter, because the torbrowser-launcher package ships with apparmor profiles and if you have apparmor enabled 0.3.7-3 won't start anymore. upstream have been changes to the apparmor profiles in 0.3.8/0.3.9, so the arch package needs an update

tropicalia

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Re: [SOLVED]Tor Browser Installation

well actually it does matter, because the torbrowser-launcher package ships with apparmor profiles and if you have apparmor enabled 0.3.7-3 won't start anymore. upstream have been changes to the apparmor profiles in 0.3.8/0.3.9, so the arch package needs an update

This seems a bit problematic, are there ways to address this manually locally? Can we reassign the appamor profile using apparmor.d?

espritlibre

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Re: [SOLVED]Tor Browser Installation

apparmor.d-git ships its own torbrowser profiles, it will probably run if you have it installed and are in enforce mode. try it out
on the other hand it should be fairly trivial to adjust the PKGBUILD of the torbrowser package to build version the latest version.

tropicalia

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Re: [SOLVED]Tor Browser Installation

Thank you! This is very helpful.
I'm marking this one solved.