Okay, so on to the next step in my self-improvement program.
I want to get the Tor Browser working on my machine. Indeed I have used it with no problems before, but now I can only manage to download the packages. I have tried installing the sid experimental version; tried going conservative and installing the version that is supposed to match my system (torbrowser-launcher=0.3.6-2); likewise I went primitive, and tried installing from source.
After a bit of research online, I tried installing as sudo, a few obscure esoteric tricks, all to no avail. The most joy that I can get is when I tried the command tried running tdesu torbrowser-launcher, then it went through the motions of download the whole thing, but then aborted, telling me that torbrowser cannot be run as root, then it closed.
I managed to untar the source packages for the current version (tor-browser-linux-x86_64-15.0.14.tar.xz) into a folder, but cannot seem to find anywhere to put it, or get it to run, or to complete installation, or whatever is the hangup.
It's been a few years, but I ran the Tor Browser on a Windoze machine, ran it as a portable version from a flash drive, so I could use it sometimes on public computer, and I have run it in Linux, back in the days of KDE3.5 Hardy Heron 8.x, and again, if I recall, in an early TDE Devuan installation ... I believe sometime around Jessie?
Anyway, nothing seems to work right now. I am considering building a Unabomber cabin deep in the woods, or maybe finding an empty cave up in the mountains, but then I thought, I must be missing something. I ought to give it another try.
I would like to use the Tor Browser mainly to be able to download bridges, as I cannot easily do that with tork-trinity (even though it is supposed to be possible). That might be a bug, I don't know? I don't want to get a Gmail email address, nor even a RiseUp address, just to get bridges, but I may have to do that.
I don't know that I actually *need* bridges, but it can't hurt, as I have been having all kinds of weird connection problems.
Anybody who has a clue what is going on with Tor Browser, let me know. Thanks.
Bill