[Solved] Incomplete install of Tor

LU344928 · 2020-04-04 11:47:18

Hello again good people and pundits. Since my last activity here I've installed ascii 2.1 on my Asus laptop. Things went well except it failed to install grub but a quick search fixed that. I'm impressed at the lightning speed with which it boots and now it's up and running I naturally want to install my favorite programs. Had no luck installing Tor thru the package manager so switched to a terminal. It seemed to install ok but went I went to the menu > internet the shortcut is not there. Nor is it in accessories. When I searched in run program nothing came up.

Here's what happened:

root@devuan:~# apt install tor
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libseccomp2 tor-geoipdb torsocks
Suggested packages:
  mixmaster torbrowser-launcher socat tor-arm apparmor-utils obfsproxy
  obfs4proxy
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libseccomp2 tor tor-geoipdb torsocks
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,797 kB of archives.
After this operation, 11.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii/main amd64 libseccomp2 amd64 2.3.1-2.1+deb9u1 [40.7 kB]
Get:2 http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii/main amd64 tor amd64 0.2.9.16-1 [1,480 kB]
Get:3 http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii/main amd64 torsocks amd64 2.2.0-1+deb9u1 [72.7 kB]
Get:4 http://deb.devuan.org/merged ascii/main amd64 tor-geoipdb all 0.2.9.16-1 [1,204 kB]
Fetched 2,797 kB in 17s (164 kB/s)                                             
Selecting previously unselected package libseccomp2:amd64.
(Reading database ... 129544 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libseccomp2_2.3.1-2.1+deb9u1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libseccomp2:amd64 (2.3.1-2.1+deb9u1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package tor.
Preparing to unpack .../tor_0.2.9.16-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking tor (0.2.9.16-1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package torsocks.
Preparing to unpack .../torsocks_2.2.0-1+deb9u1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking torsocks (2.2.0-1+deb9u1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package tor-geoipdb.
Preparing to unpack .../tor-geoipdb_0.2.9.16-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking tor-geoipdb (0.2.9.16-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-11+deb9u4) ...
Setting up libseccomp2:amd64 (2.3.1-2.1+deb9u1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
Setting up torsocks (2.2.0-1+deb9u1) ...
Setting up tor (0.2.9.16-1) ...
Something or somebody made /var/lib/tor disappear.
Creating one for you again.
Something or somebody made /var/log/tor disappear.
Creating one for you again.
[ ok ] Starting tor daemon...done.
Setting up tor-geoipdb (0.2.9.16-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-11+deb9u4) ...
root@devuan:~#

Your advice would be appreciated, thanks.

Last edited by LU344928 (2020-04-05 09:53:04)

chris2be8 · 2020-04-04 15:59:19

You might need to install torbrowser-launcher (or one of the other suggested packages)?

I've never used tor so that's just a guess based on it's name.

Chris

xinomilo · 2020-04-04 16:19:15

you probably need tor browser.
apt install torbrowser-launcher
or download from official website. https://www.torproject.org/download/

tor package is the tor daemon only. it doesn't include torbrowser, nor do you want it to run torbrowser. torbrowser includes its own tor daemon.

LU344928 · 2020-04-05 09:45:32

chris2be8 wrote:

You might need to install torbrowser-launcher (or one of the other suggested packages)?
I've never used tor so that's just a guess based on it's name.
Chris

Thanks Chris.

LU344928 · 2020-04-05 09:51:51

xinomilo wrote:

you probably need tor browser.
apt install torbrowser-launcher

That didn't work:

root@devuan:~# apt install torbrowser-launcher 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package torbrowser-launcher is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'torbrowser-launcher' has no installation candidate
root@devuan:~#

So I went back to the package manager but a search didn't find it either.

or download from official website. https://www.torproject.org/download/

Got it that time. I was surprised to see that I didn't have to install it. I just extracted the archive and it worked straight away. Thanks for that.

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#1 2020-04-04 11:47:18

[Solved] Incomplete install of Tor

#2 2020-04-04 15:59:19

Re: [Solved] Incomplete install of Tor

#3 2020-04-04 16:19:15

Re: [Solved] Incomplete install of Tor

#4 2020-04-05 09:45:32

Re: [Solved] Incomplete install of Tor

#5 2020-04-05 09:51:51

Re: [Solved] Incomplete install of Tor

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