As total newcomer, what would you suggest as first steps with Tor? No mission critical application.

  • @dioramaOP
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    14 years ago

    I did not like that the Tor browser is not accessible via the start menu (in my case: xfce4-popup-whiskermenu). Therefore I installed the application with the following:
    sudo desktop-file-install /usr/share/applications/start-tor-browser.desktop
    but I received the warnings as follow:

    warnings
    /usr/share/applications/start-tor-browser.desktop: error: value "sh -c '"/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" --detach || ([ !  -x "/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" ] && "$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach)' dummy %k" for key "Exec" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a reserved character ''' outside of a quote
    /usr/share/applications/start-tor-browser.desktop: error: value "sh -c '"/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" --detach || ([ !  -x "/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" ] && "$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach)' dummy %k" for key "Exec" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a reserved character '|' outside of a quote
    /usr/share/applications/start-tor-browser.desktop: error: value "sh -c '"/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" --detach || ([ !  -x "/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" ] && "$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach)' dummy %k" for key "Exec" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a reserved character '|' outside of a quote
    /usr/share/applications/start-tor-browser.desktop: error: value "sh -c '"/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" --detach || ([ !  -x "/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" ] && "$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach)' dummy %k" for key "Exec" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a reserved character '(' outside of a quote
    /usr/share/applications/start-tor-browser.desktop: error: value "sh -c '"/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" --detach || ([ !  -x "/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" ] && "$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach)' dummy %k" for key "Exec" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a reserved character '&' outside of a quote
    /usr/share/applications/start-tor-browser.desktop: error: value "sh -c '"/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" --detach || ([ !  -x "/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" ] && "$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach)' dummy %k" for key "Exec" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a reserved character '&' outside of a quote
    /usr/share/applications/start-tor-browser.desktop: error: value "sh -c '"/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" --detach || ([ !  -x "/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" ] && "$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach)' dummy %k" for key "Exec" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a non-escaped character '$' in a quote, but it should be escaped with two backslashes ("\\$")
    /usr/share/applications/start-tor-browser.desktop: error: value "sh -c '"/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" --detach || ([ !  -x "/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" ] && "$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach)' dummy %k" for key "Exec" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a reserved character '$' outside of a quote
    /usr/share/applications/start-tor-browser.desktop: error: value "sh -c '"/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" --detach || ([ !  -x "/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" ] && "$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach)' dummy %k" for key "Exec" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a reserved character '*' outside of a quote
    /usr/share/applications/start-tor-browser.desktop: error: value "sh -c '"/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" --detach || ([ !  -x "/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" ] && "$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach)' dummy %k" for key "Exec" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a reserved character ')' outside of a quote
    /usr/share/applications/start-tor-browser.desktop: error: value "sh -c '"/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" --detach || ([ !  -x "/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" ] && "$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach)' dummy %k" for key "Exec" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a reserved character ''' outside of a quote
    Error on file "/usr/share/applications/start-tor-browser.desktop": Failed to validate the created desktop file
    

    Do you find it a bad practice for you? Is that suspicious?

    • @ajz
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      2 years ago

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