TorBrowser on PureOS

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Download and setup TorBrowser on PureOS

1. Open PureBrowser and go to https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en. Click to download the Linux, 64-bit version, choose to save file and click OK:

2. When download is completed, click the little folder icon to open the Downloads folder:

3. Double-click the downloaded file to open it:

4. The file will be opened in archive manager, click Extract to proceed:

5. Select the folder where the archive will be extracted (in this example Desktop folder is used) and click the Extract button (upper right corner) to unpack the archive:

6. When the extraction is complete, click to show the extracted files:

7. This is what you will see:

Note that the extracted folder is named tor-browser_en-US and that it is placed in the Desktop directory. The file start-tor-browser.desktop is a shortcut file, but we need to edit it to point to the directory where we extracted the TorBrowser archive.

8. Right-click the start-tor-browser.desktop file and select to open it in other application:

9. Select Text Editor and click the Select button:

10. It will be opened in a text editor:

Note the Exec and X-TorBrowser-ExecShell lines! Change them to point to the directory where your tor-browser_en-US is placed (in this example: Desktop), so for example, this will be:

Exec=/home/USERNAME/Desktop/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach
X-TorBrowser-ExecShell=/home/USERNAME/Desktop/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach

USERNAME here is your username you have chosen during the installation procedure (in my case it is simply "mladen"):

11. When you change these lines, click to Save the file, and exit the text editor (× button).

Then right-click the start-tor-browser.desktop file and copy it:

12. On the left side pane click the Home shortcut:

13. and then on your keyboard press CTRL+H combination, which will reveal hidden files and folders:

14. Open folder .local->share->Applications and right-click->paste, so that the file start-tor-browser.desktop is copied to this folder:

If there is no Applications folder, simply right-click and create it (the name is case sensitive).

15. This is it, TorBrowser shortcut will be shown in the applications menu:

Start it, and when it is configured, open https://check.torproject.org/ to see if you are using the Tor network:

Note: If you wish to upgrade TorBrowser, simply delete tor-browser_en-US folder from your Desktop directory and repeat just the steps 1-6!