How To Install Tor Browser In Kali Linux

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HOW TO INSTALL TOR BROWSER IN KALI LINUX USING APT

Open a terminal window

Run apt-get update

Run apt-get install tor torbrowser-launcher and select Y at the prompt

Now you’ll have a new Tor Browser application in the Applications menu under Usual Applications and Internet. This shortcut will only work if you’re not running as the root user. See the instructions below if you’re running Kali as root.

HOW TO INSTALL TOR BROWSER IN KALI LINUX MANUALLY

Download the Tor Bundle from Tor Bundle Download

Download a package called torbrowser-launcher which can be found at GitHub – TorBrowser-Launcher

Download the architecture-appropriate file above, save it somewhere, then run the tar command to extract the package from the download directory: tar -xvf tor*

This command assumes this is the only file in the directory that starts with “tor”.

To run the Tor Browser Bundle, execute the start-tor-browser script from the directory you just extracted: ./start-tor-browser.desktop

This will launch Vidalia and once that connects to Tor, it will launch Firefox.

HOW TO RUN TOR WHILE LOGGED IN AS ROOT

If you’re running Kali Linux as root, you might get an error saying you can’t run Tor as root. Some website will tell you to edit the launcher script, but that is not the recommended method. Instead, follow the instructions below to add a new non-root user.

You can create a new user and configure Tor to run as that user even though you’re logged in as root. To do so, run these commands from Terminal:

adduser --home /home/toruser toruser (or whatever username you want to use)

You’ll be prompted to create a password, but you don’t really need to save it unless you want to actually login as this user. Fill in the other prompts as needed.

You’ll need to run xhost si:localuser:toruser from Terminal to get the new user listed in xhost.

To run Tor as the new user, use this command from Terminal: sudo -u toruser -H torbrowser-launcher

You can also edit the Applications menu shortcut, but it’ll require another app to get installed:

Run apt-get install alacarte from Terminal

Run alacarte from Terminal after the app is installed

Browse through your Applications menu under Usual Applications > Internet and find Tor Browser and click Properties

Edit the command box and change it to sudo -u toruser -H torbrowser-launcher %u

Click OK and Close

If you’re running the latest version of Kali that uses XFCE as the default desktop environment then you can’t use alacarte to edit the application menu. Instead, navigate to the Usual Applications folder and Internet. Then right-click on Tor Browser and edit the command entry to be sudo -u toruser -H torbrowser-launcher %u.

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HOW TO UNINSTALL TOR BROWSER IN KALI LINUX USING APT

If you used the Apt method above to install Tor and later wish to uninstall Tor, you can use the below command to remove and purge all of the packages and files that were installed.

Open a terminal window

Run apt-get remove --purge tor torbrowser-launcher and select Y at the prompt

HOW TO REMOVE TOR USER ACCOUNT

If you used the above methods to create a regular user account to run Tor while logged in as root, you can use these steps to remove that account and delete the home directory that was created.

Open a terminal window

Run userdel -r toruser (or whatever username you want to use)

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