The original post: /r/tor by /u/Qwert-4 on 2024-10-11 18:24:46.

This question may sound stupid, as if it’s coming from someone who did not read the manual, but I really do not see this covered in any manuals or tutorials.

So, I got the Tor .tar.xz file from official Telegram bot (Tor website is banned in my country). I uncompressed it’s contents and entered it. In tor-browser catalogue I see a catalogue named “Browser” and a “start-tor-browser.desktop” file. Following the official tutorial, I turned on “Executable as program” in file properties and clicked “Run as program” several times. It created a strange “sedeL1tQ3” file with unknown extension one time, but nothing else. I can launch it with navigating to this location through the terminal and running it with a command ./start-tor-browser.desktop, but no shortcut in the apps menu is being created. I have to do it every time to launch the browser.

What am I doing wrong?