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How to install Tor Bundle permanently

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I am using Linux Mint 14 64bit Cinnamon I want to install Tor Bundle permanently and create an icon )for it to use it with my EDGE connection (very limited 30 KiB max without having to run command lines everytime I want to use it.
I have tried this link http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-instal ... buntu.html and this https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian but non of them worked :( :(
BTW I have already downloaded Tor Bundle 64bit :D
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Re: How to install Tor Bundle permanently

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Helps if you give some details, like which desktop environment you are using. For Cinnamon and MATE at least, right-click the menu button and you can edit your menu there. Add an entry for your program.
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Re: How to install Tor Bundle permanently

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xenopeek wrote:Helps if you give some details, like which desktop environment you are using. For Cinnamon and MATE at least, right-click the menu button and you can edit your menu there. Add an entry for your program.
Sorry :D I have updated my thread :D :D
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Re: How to install Tor Bundle permanently

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I have managed to install it with these commands I found at http://www.upubuntu.com/2012/08/install ... pa-on.html:

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:upubuntu-com/tor64
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tor-browser
But the tutorial says:
Change now folder ownership of Tor Browser to your current user with this command:

sudo chown $USER -R ~/tor-browser/
and I don't know what is that supposed to mean :roll: :roll:
And when I try to run Tor I get this message

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Feb 02 02:09:47.417 [Notice] Tor v0.2.3.25 (git-17c24b3118224d65) running on Linux.
Feb 02 02:09:47.417 [Notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
Feb 02 02:09:47.417 [Notice] Read configuration file "/home/mint/.tor-browser/App/../Data/Tor/torrc".
Feb 02 02:09:47.417 [Notice] Initialized libevent version 2.0.21-stable using method epoll. Good.
Feb 02 02:09:47.418 [Notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:0
Feb 02 02:09:47.418 [Notice] Socks listener listening on port 37837.
Feb 02 02:09:47.418 [Notice] Opening Control listener on 127.0.0.1:9051
Feb 02 02:09:47.418 [Warning] /home/mint/.tor-browser/Data/Tor is not owned by this user (mint, 1000) but by root (0). Perhaps you are running Tor as the wrong user?
Feb 02 02:09:47.418 [Warning] Failed to parse/validate config: Couldn't access/create private data directory "/home/mint/.tor-browser/Data/Tor"
Feb 02 02:09:47.418 [Error] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
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Re: How to install Tor Bundle permanently

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Erm, it means open a terminal and run that command. It will change ownership of all the files in the .tor-browser folder from root to you, which as the errors indicate is needed. Note that the command is wrong, as it should be .tor-browser and not tor-browser. So instead:

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sudo chown $USER -R ~/.tor-browser/
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Re: How to install Tor Bundle permanently

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Or you could just go to the website and download the browser bundle you require and extraxt it to your home directory
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