On 03/29/2017 08:57 AM, gumb wrote:
On 29/03/17 17:27, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Ok, I have tried this over a dozen times now, at different times of the day. Me thinks something is sick...
I am running openSuSE Leap 42.2 on an x64 laptop. I used YaST to install Tor and trying to get it set up. When I run the Tor Browser launcher it brings up a dialog box telling me to download the Tor Browser. (I believe it is trying to get the latest version?) But every time it tries I get a failure report telling me that the Signature Verification Failed with an additional ominous warning telling me I might be under attack or there might be a networking problem. I don't have any other networking issues and if I am under attack I have no clue what to do about it. Nothing helpful is suggested in this warning, except just to try downloading it again. HUMP!
As an aside, this Tor Browser down-loader needs to be more robust. It seems pretty amateurishly designed and has the feel of being an add-on enhancement. In this age, most down-loaders are designed so as not to require a complete redo of the download in the event of corruption. The way I understand them, most stage downloads in small checksumed pieces and sequenced so that the download can be reconstructed when finished. If any one piece fails, then only that piece needs to be resent, not the entire fricking package! And yeah I know, this is an all volunteer effort, but I am not sure who or where to report this to, is this an openSuSE distribution issue? Should I submit an enhancement request to OpenSuSE? Is this a TOR project issue and do I try to track down their enhancement request system?, or somewhere else?
Is there another route I could take to get the Tor Browser, with instructions on how to integrate it within the OpenSuSE Tor package framework? It appears like I might be able to get it directly from the TOR website, but that comes as a tar package and I am not sure what, if anything, I need to do to integrate it with the rest of the OpenSuSE TOR package/framework that I downloaded/installed via YaST.
As always, thanks in advance for helping... Marc.
Depends exactly what you're trying to do. If you just want the Tor Browser, that runs fully self-contained, no need for separate Tor package. Simply unpack the tar file and run it from somewhere within a home directory, or place it somewhere like /opt to make it accessible to all.
OTOH, if you're trying to manually torify programs, you wouldn't necessarily be wanting the Tor Browser Bundle, since you could just torify a regular Firefox or other browser installation. It can be quite complex and fiddly though. I used to do things that way a long time ago and switched to the browser bundle because of the faff.
gumb
Thanks Gumb, Andrei for your replies, got me going with the Tor Browser and I managed to get it up and working! Kinda interesting playing with it, seems like quite a few websites don't play nicely if they can't learn your real IP address! Too bad the down-loader doesn't work out of the box like it should! Given the recent developments from our trusty U.S. government, and their assault on internet privacy, I have a feeling I am going to be using the Tor Browser a lot these days! ;-) And from my recent internet browsing it looks like there is a real surge in other defensive strategies also emerging! Everything from VPNs to HTTPS Everywhere to website visitation noise generators! Wow, an all out internet warfare IMHO! Marc... -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org