How to install Tor browser in Ubuntu
To install Tor browser in Ubuntu
Tor browser is a freeware and it is released under BSD licensing and it allows you to browse internet anonymously. It is available for Windows,Mac,Linux OS. Tor browser is a combination of Firefox and tor project. Tor works on onion routing and in this the layers are nested one over the other which is similar to the onion layers. Tor browser is responsible for encrypting the data several times and send it through virtual circuits.
Working of Tor
Tor browser is based on the Onion routing concept. In this concept the routing layers are nested one over the other like the onion layers. The nested layer is responsible for encryption of data and sends to circuits and the last layer decrypts inner layer data by sending original data to destination.
Tor Installation
Download the latest version of Tor from the official site of Tor browser using the below command.
user1@linuxhelp:~/wget https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en
Extract tor package
user1@linuxhelp:~/Downloads$ tar -xpvf tor-browser-linux64-5.5.4_en-US.tar.xz
tor-browser_en-US/
tor-browser_en-US/Browser/
tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/
tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/
...
...
tor-browser_en-US/Browser/webapprt/omni.ja
tor-browser_en-US/Browser/webapprt/webapprt.ini
tor-browser_en-US/start-tor-browser.desktop
To start the browser
To start the browser, run the following command.
user1@linuxhelp:~/Downloads$ ls -l
total 64948
drwxr-xr-x 3 user1 user1 4096 Apr 7 10:10 ./
drwxr-xr-x 16 user1 user1 4096 Apr 4 20:10 ../
drwx------ 3 user1 user1 4096 Jan 1 2000 tor-browser_en-US/
-rw-rw-r-- 1 user1 user1 66492864 Mar 16 15:41 tor-browser-linux64-5.5.4_en-US.tar.xz
user1@linuxhelp:~/Downloads$ cd tor-browser_en-US/ user1@linuxhelp:~/Downloads/tor-browser_en-US$ ls -l total 16 drwx------ 3 user1 user1 4096 Jan 1 2000 ./ drwxr-xr-x 3 user1 user1 4096 Apr 7 10:10 ../ drwx------ 10 user1 user1 4096 Jan 1 2000 Browser/ -rwx------ 1 user1 user1 1682 Jan 1 2000 start-tor-browser.desktop* user1@linuxhelp:~/Downloads/tor-browser_en-US$ ./start-tor-browser.desktop Launching ' ./Browser/start-tor-browser --detach' ...
Click Connect to connect to the Tor proxy server,after connecting the browser will open.
Now we can verify the proxy server using the whatismyipaddress website.
Link: www.whatismyipaddress.com/proxy-check
Now we can open a website using Tor.
To add desktop shortcut
To add a desktop to the launcher first go to tor installed directory and drag the tor application and drop it to the launcher.
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