{"id":2481,"date":"2013-12-08T13:28:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T13:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=2481"},"modified":"2013-12-08T13:28:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T13:28:11","slug":"install-tor-ubuntu-from-official-repositroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/install-tor-ubuntu-from-official-repositroy\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Tor in Ubuntu from official repository"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Tor_logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Tor_logo.png\" alt=\"Tor repository\" width=\"160\" height=\"235\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2482\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This tutorial shows how to install Tor &#8211; a free software for enabling online anonymity &#8211; via its official repository in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 10.04<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not recommended to use the default Tor packages in Ubuntu&#8217;s universe repository because have not reliably been updated in the past, which means you could be missing stability and security fixes.<\/p>\n<p><b>NOTE: What follows is going to show how to install Tor (standalone), you&#8217;ll need to manually configure your apps to use Tor.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p><b><i>If you just want to <b>use Tor for anonymous web browsing<\/b>, please use the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.torproject.org\/projects\/torbrowser.html.en\" title=\"TorBrowser download page\" target=\"_blank\">Tor Browser Bundle<\/a>. It comes with readily configured Tor and a browser patched for better anonymity.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, follow below steps:<\/p>\n<p>1. Paste command below and hit enter to add Tor repository:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo sh -c 'echo \"deb http:\/\/deb.torproject.org\/torproject.org $(lsb_release -sc) main\" >> \/etc\/apt\/sources.list.d\/tor.list'<\/pre>\n<p>2. Download and install the key:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv 886DDD89\r\n\r\ngpg --export A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89 | sudo apt-key add -<\/pre>\n<p>3. Now refresh your sources and install deb to keep the signing key current:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install deb.torproject.org-keyring<\/pre>\n<p>Finally, the latest stable Tor is available in Ubuntu Software Center. <\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/trac.torproject.org\/projects\/tor\/wiki\" title=\"Tor Wiki\" target=\"_blank\">Wiki page<\/a> for more <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tutorial shows how to install Tor &#8211; a free software for enabling online anonymity &#8211; via its official repository in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 10.04 It&#8217;s not recommended to use the default Tor packages in Ubuntu&#8217;s universe repository because have not reliably been updated in the past, which means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[879,878],"class_list":["post-2481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-online-anonymity","tag-tor"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}