Can't download Tor-browser from mirrors

Issues & Assistance
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Installed torbrowser-launcher but can’t download tor browser in launcher. Tried mirrors, vpn. All without success. Any ideas?

3

What exactly have you attempted and what was the output?

Is it that torbrowser-launcher was/is installed but it seems to not be able to download the browser (and if so what errors are produced)?

Of course we should be up to date, ex;

sudo pacman -Syu
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I found the solution! Unpacked archive file from torproject to cd ~/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser/ Now Tor works

5

Is that really necessary? I would think a

sudo pacman -S torbrowser-launcher

followed by

torbrowser-launcher

should have done the trick.

First run will:

  • Download the official Tor Browser bundle.
  • Verify its signature.
  • Install it under your home directory.

After that, you should a “Tor Browser” entry in your application menu.

On an updated system, that is, as @cscs pointed out.

In Arch, we normally don’t download and unpack packages manually, but of course you can always do that, too. The thing is, that this app that you run now is not part of the packages managed by pacman and will not be updated with pacman -Syu. So you will have an outdated torbrowser probably tomorrow afternoon. Edit: I stand corrected by @ChillZone, as torbrowser apparently updates itself.

How did you install torbrowser-launcher, as you stated in your initial post?

6

Correct but the user has a another option to avoid Aur.

It’s the way i do it also:

stat ~/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser/                                                                                      ─╯
  File: /home/me/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser/
  Size: 98              Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 0,51    Inode: 787807      Links: 1
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: ( 1000/      me)   Gid: ( 1000/      me)
Access: 2026-03-16 13:38:16.630958971 -0600
Modify: 2026-03-16 13:39:35.515888855 -0600
Change: 2026-03-16 13:39:35.515888855 -0600
 Birth: 2026-03-16 13:38:16.630958971 -0600

It will update it self. So many choices on Linux, some good some very bad! :wink:

7

It does? Oh in that case I’ll scratch what I just wrote :grin:

8

But why, your still correct and accuate. :slight_smile:

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Eh.. yeah, true. It will not be updated by pacman, but it updates itself, is that it? I think I get it. Too many possibilities for a simple minded guy like me :smile:

10

Yes. Tor mirrors are blocked so I have to load files manually.

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Oh, well, then that would have explained the original issue. :sweat_smile: