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arievanleyen

Member

Registered: 2014-08-29

Posts: 1

Tor Browser Bundle (TBB) problems

I am trying to use the Tor Browser Bundle in Slitaz 4.0 without success.

The installation of the bundle is without problems (only extract the archive and keep the folder stucture).

After starting the script (start-tor-browser), I receive 2 errors:

line 210: SYSARCHITECTURE=$(getconf LONG_BIT)

command getconf not found

line 211: TORARCHITECTURE=$(expr "$(file Tor/tor)" : '.*ELF \([[:digit:]]*\)')

command file not found

Both commands (file and getconf) are indeed not available in Slitaz but since my system is 32 bit it is easy to bypass these commands by changing line 210 and 211 and filling in 32 in both cases.

However this doesn't solve the problem because after starting the script and filling in that I need obfs3 bridge support I receive the error that the bridges are not correctly configured.

I use the TBB a lot because in China it is difficult to reach a lot of sites and by using Tor I successfully bypass the Wall.

Does anybody have these problems and found a solution for it?

necrophcodr

Member

Registered: 2014-02-20

Posts: 101

Re: Tor Browser Bundle (TBB) problems

You should know first and foremost that bypassing "the Wall" could be illegal, and net you in a lot of trouble.

With that out of the way, it seems the files you are missing are related to the GNU coreutils. Can someone else verify that this issue is fixed in 4.0 when installing GNU coreutils?

Darjeeling

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Registered: 2012-02-06

Posts: 210

Re: Tor Browser Bundle (TBB) problems

Over a year ago I had the same "getconf" problem in SliTaz 3.0 after upgrading Tor Browser Bundle to the then latest version. It turned out the Tor people had compiled Firefox against a later version of gtk+ ...

- SliTaz 3.0: gtk+ 2.16.5

- SliTaz 4.0: gtk+ 2.24.10

- SliTaz 5.0: gtk+ 2.24.24

... which was why TBB wouldn't run any more in 3.0. A short while later Mozilla did the same with the original Firefox. The last FF version that runs in SliTaz 3.0 is 17.0.11. But until not too long ago both, TBB and the original FF worked without problem in SliTaz 4.0. So, it looks like they have once again raised the bar. If you feel like it you can try out TBB in Rolling, maybe this still works. But if not, they're probably now using gtk+ 3.xx and we have a problem.

linea

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-31

Posts: 70

Re: Tor Browser Bundle (TBB) problems

Hi

I've never used TBB, but there's some tools in SliTaz: privoxy, polipo, tor, etc that allow you to configure your browser (with a bit of online help).

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Tor Browser Bundle (TBB) problems

The current stable version tor-browser-linux32-3.6.4_en-US.tar.xz runs on slitaz-4.0 release iso and slitaz-rolling.iso after installing a utility called file.

[c]# tazpkg recharge && tazpkg -gi file[/c]

[c]unxz -c tor-browser-linux32-3.6.4_en-US.tar.xz | tar xf -[/c]

[c]cd tor-browser_en-US && ./start-tor-browser[/c]

Click connect button

Clicking configure and choosing Transport type: obfs3 (recommended) resulted in the same error when running tor browser bundle in current versions of debian and arch linux.

"Tor failed to establish a Tor network connection"

"Connecting to a relay directory failed(missing pluggable transport)"

The problem is with tor browser bundle or it's configuration, not the distro it's running on.