INSTALLATION | Tor Project | Tor Browser Manual (2024)

For Windows

1. Navigate to the Tor Browser download page.

2. Download the Windows .exe file.

3. (Recommended) Verify the file's signature.

4. When the download is complete, double click the .exe file. Complete the installation wizard process.

For macOS

1. Navigate to the Tor Browser download page.

2. Download the macOS .dmg file.

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3. (Recommended) Verify the file's signature.

4. When the download is complete, double click the .dmg file. Complete the installation wizard process.

For GNU/Linux

1. Navigate to the Tor Browser download page.

2. Download the GNU/Linux .tar.xz file.

3. (Recommended) Verify the file's signature.

4. Now follow either the graphical or the command-line method:

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Graphical method

• When the download is complete, extract the archive using an archive manager.

• You'll need to tell your GNU/Linux that you want the ability to execute shell scripts.Navigate to the newly extracted Tor Browser directory.Right click on start-tor-browser.desktop, open Properties or Preferences and change the permission to allow executing file as program. Double-click the icon to start up Tor Browser for the first time.

Note: On Ubuntu and some other distros if you try to launch start-tor-browser.desktop a text file might open up.In that case, you will have to change the default behavior and allow running .desktop files as executables.This setting can usually be found in your file manager.

Command-line method

• When the download is complete, extract the archive with the command tar -xf [TB archive].

• From inside the Tor Browser directory, you can launch Tor Browser by running:

  ‪./start-tor-browser.desktop

  Note: If this command fails to run, you probably need to make the file executable. From within this directory run: chmod +x start-tor-browser.desktop

Some additional flags that can be used with start-tor-browser.desktop from the command-line:

See here on how to update Tor Browser.