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How to install Tor Browser in Kicksecure.

This is mostly undocumented.

Documentation for this is incomplete. Contributions are happily considered! See this for potential alternatives.

Introduction

Better use Whonix instead?

Tor Browser Downloader (by Whonix developers) is documented on the Whonix's Tor Browser wiki page.

Installation

1. Install dependencies.

Install package(s) tb-updater tb-starter following these instructions

1 Platform specific notice.

• Kicksecure: No special notice.
• Kicksecure-Qubes: In Template.

2 Update the package lists and upgrade the system .

sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

3 Install the tb-updater tb-starter package(s).

Using apt command line --no-install-recommends option is in most cases optional.

sudo apt install --no-install-recommends tb-updater tb-starter

4 Platform specific notice.

• Kicksecure: No special notice.
• Kicksecure-Qubes: Shut down Template and restart App Qubes based on it as per Qubes Template Modification .

5 Done.

The procedure of installing package(s) tb-updater tb-starter is complete.

2. Download Tor Browser.

update-torbrowser

Usage

Start.

torbrowser

Tor Browser Bundle Tor versus System Tor

Tor Browser Bundle (TBB) starts its own internal Tor and does not use system Tor. These two different Tor processes run independently. This is as per TBB upstream (The Tor Project) (original developer) default configuration.

See Also

• Privacy Goals and Non-Goals of Kicksecure
• Mullvad Browser

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