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  • @libBletchley
    4•4 years ago

    You must have Tor installed, and I believe torsocks is packaged with Tor these days. You simply prefix lynx with torsocks.

    I’ve gotten that “lynx: Can’t access startfile” error before and I don’t recall the issue. I can only reproduce that error if I use the onion URL, e.g.:

    torsocks lynx 'http://web.archivecrfip2lpi.onion/web/20200622172714/rethinksecurity.io/posts/you-have-an-obligation-to-fight-for-privacy/'

    BTW, if you don’t have Tor, you can simply omit the leading torsocks.

    • @Zevena
      2•4 years ago

      i downloaded tor. do i need to type something before running it? i have tor and torsocks-git.

      • @libBletchley
        4•4 years ago

        Are you running linux? If you’re using a debian or ubuntu package manager, then it will install Tor so that it just works. That is, when you reboot your Tor backend will be running automatically. Try typing systemctl status tor to check. If it says “active”, it’s running. The next test is to run torbrowser-launcher and go to https://check.torproject.org/. If all that checks out, then you can simply prefix commandline commands with torsocks (it’s mainly just java apps that won’t work with torsocks).

        • @Zevena
          2•4 years ago

          thanks it working now. i did

          systemctl enable tor

          i think

        • @Zevena
          1•4 years ago

          oh i didnt enable tor