I followed instructions, but after clicking the Tor Browser Icon the process hangs on 'verifying signatures'.
Is there any way out to install tor browser?
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duplicate:askubuntu.com/questions/881082/…– XzuNov 12, 2019 at 10:26
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Anyway that question is protected by community and I wanted to share my knowledge. What do I have to do?– Alexey BurdinNov 12, 2019 at 16:01
1 Answer
The thing that hangs is gpg
. Run ps -ef | grep gpg
while tor is verifying signatures and see there's actually a gpg
running.
Tor browser installer will run gpg --refresh-keys
anyways, so (from here)
Because of some jerk on the internet poisoning PGP keys, downloading and using the TB developers' poisoned key will take forever
But we don't need to follow the link to cure the gpg db, as it has another home directory. We just need to download and install the 'poisoned' key safely.
This thing is implemented in gpg 2.2.17
and later versions. So you need to /usr/bin/gpg --version
and update gpg
if it's older than 2.2.17
.
The update process is rather simple, too: get to this git gist, load the script, replace 2.2.10
with 2.2.17
within the script and run download, compilation and make.
Maybe you should copy /usr/local/bin/gpg*
over /usr/bin/gpg*
after it.
Enjoy )
gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.17
libgcrypt 1.8.3
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