in this video, we're going to show you how to install tor on linux.
specifically we'll be using ubuntu.
this is the standard desktop ubuntu release.
if you want other linux versions, let me know.
although most ubuntu flavor, debian flavors are going to be pretty straightforward.
i personally haven't messed with anything like arch or anything more complicated to try to install tor on.
there's not much benefit.
if you're already building those, you'll know how to install tor, so you should be set.
but in this case, we'll go ahead and switch over to our ubuntu desktop and we'll look at installing tor.
okay, so here on the ubuntu desktop, we'll of course start by opening up a web browser like we have before, and we will go to the torproject dot org.
now there's a couple ways to install on linux.
you could of course install without using the web browser at all, but we'll just do this route just to show you the easiest way.
we can go ahead and click that download for linux and it will start it.
you'll see that's the 2nd one.
i just downloaded it a minute ago.
and we have another file here from a different video we were working on.
so you can ignore that one.
and once it's downloaded, you can see in your downloads, actually, if we go, if we go here, we can go to our downloads and you can see in there we have two tor- browser- linux folders.
so we'll go ahead and just tar xf, the tor browser, just one of them.
and what that will do is decompress the zipped file.
so give that a moment to run.
and once that's done, if we look again, now you can see that there's a folder called tor browser.
we can actually take a look in that folder to see what's in there.
and there's the browser and the start tor browser.
desktop.
so there is a couple ways to go about installing this now that we have unzipped it.
we can go through the graphical way, which is like through the menus here.
we can go into here, we could find this, we can look at the properties on this, look at the permissions.
we can say allow executing file as a program and that would basically allow it to run when we click on it.
and if we double click on this, you'll notice if it just loads a text file like this, we need to change the way this is actually executed within linux.
so that can get pretty complicated.
so these are ways back on the command line.
if we just go into tor browser, we can literally just run the start tor browser.
so if you just navigate to it, it launches it.
we'll wait a 2nd here.
see, it's creating a bunch of files there and boom, tor is there and running.
so very straightforward way to do that.
that's probably the easiest way is just straight run that file.
if you have issues with this, let me know.
there is a good page which i will go ahead and link on here.
so if you have any concerns or questions about this installation method, go ahead and check out the tor project manuals, right?
tv- manual.
torproject dot org installation.
and you can see more info about the linux installation.
pretty straightforward there.
we ended up just doing this command line method much easier.
i mean, this was where we ran into that issue where it doesn't launch.
so if you have any issues with that, let me know.
otherwise follow that command line method for ubuntu and you should be good to go.
and that's it for this one.
if you have any questions, of course, let us know.
add some comments.
otherwise, we'll see you in the next one.