By Manny Fernandez

September 19, 2019

Installing Tor on Ubuntu 19.04 and Windows 10

Yesterday I wrote a post about installing Tor on macOS.  I got a lot of feedback about other OS’s.  I figured I would do a post on installing Tor for Ubuntu Linux 19.04 and Windows 10.

Ubuntu 19.04

Let’s make sure what version we are running.

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  1. Click on Activities
  2. Search for Settings
  3. Then choose Settings icon (Gear, see above)

Validate you are running this version

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You can see the Ubuntu is 19.04

Next, lets launch the Terminal utility.

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You can do this in the same way you searched for Settings only this time, search Terminal

Now for the CLI commands

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You will need to use sudo to run the apt-get utility with elevated privileges.

You will need to run sudo apt-get install tor

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Now you will need to download the tor-browser from a specific repository.

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You will need to hit the Enter key at this point to accept the install.

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Next you will need to run an update of the software.

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Finally, we need to run sudo apt install torbrowser-launcher

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Once again, we will need to Choose Activities and search for Tor

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Once you launch Tor, you will see the Download taking place.  Depending on your Internet speed, this should take a couple of minutes.

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Now you can hit the Connect

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Here we can see that my exit node is on France.

Windows 10

Now we will install Tor on Windows 10

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Launch you favorite browser (for now at least) and point to www.torproject.org and click on the Download Tor Browser button on the right.

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You can now choose the Windows icon.

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Choose the file you need and save it.

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Double-click on the file

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Choose you language and then OK

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Choose the path you want to install it on.

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If you want, you can launch Tor and you can shortcuts as necessary.

Launch Tor

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You will now have the same screen as the macOS version and the Ubuntu 19.04.  Choose Connect

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Now the WinDoze version of Tor is exiting from Germany.

Some sites, mine included block Tor sites.

Forbidden

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This is what you will see.  This is usually when I realize that I am using Tor.

 

 

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