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I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and i'm trying to get Tor Browser Bundle. i've downloaded the package and then the tor project website tells me to put this in my terminal

tar -xvJf tor-browser-linux32-3.5_LANG.tar.xz

I tried that but it gave me this ERR0R:

tar (child): tor-browser-linux32-3.5_LANG.tar.xz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

..Help?

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The term LANG in tar -xvJf tor-browser-linux32-3.5_LANG.tar.xz stands for the language of the bundle. So if you downloaded the english version you would have to substitute LANG by en-US. The correct command in this case is

tar -xvJf tor-browser-linux32-3.5_en-US.tar.xz
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    Your suggestion really helped (with LANG substitution and BYEAskUbuntu helped with his "~Desktop/" Thanks!
    – Collin Blatt
    Jan 15, 2014 at 2:58
  • We are glad that you have solved your issue
    – Raja G
    Jan 15, 2014 at 3:01
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Two reasons we have here with solutions.

  1. You may have not doing the TAR for tor in the proper directory where exactly you have placed tor . so make sure that you are doing extraction from the correct directory where you have placed Tor.

  2. The downloaded tor might get corrupted, so you better redownload and try again.

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  • It's on my desktop. How would i write the path for that?
    – Collin Blatt
    Jan 13, 2014 at 2:28
  • Then it would be as tar -xvJf ~/Desktop/tor-browser-linux32-3.5_LANG.tar.xz @CollinBlatt
    – Raja G
    Jan 13, 2014 at 2:33
  • I re-downloaded it and then I tried the code you gave above...but same error.
    – Collin Blatt
    Jan 13, 2014 at 4:31

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