4 Tor Browser Launcher is intended to make the Tor Browser Bundle (TBB) easier to
5 maintain and use for GNU/Linux users. You install torbrowser-launcher from your
6 distribution's package manager and it handles downloading the most recent
7 version of TBB for you, in your language and for your architecture. It also
8 adds a "Tor Browser" application launcher to your operating system's menu.
10 When you first launch Tor Browser Launcher, it will download TBB from
11 https://www.torproject.org/ and extract it in ~/.torproject, and then execute
12 it. When you run it after that it will just execute TBB.
14 Tor Browser Launcher will get updated each time a new version of TBB is
15 released. When you open Tor Browser after an update, it will download the newer
16 version of TBB for you and extract it over your old TBB directory in
17 ~/.torproject, so you will maintain your TBB bookmarks.
19 Building a Debian package
20 =========================
25 You need to have stdeb installed. If you're using Debian or Ubuntu you can
28 apt-get install python-stdeb
30 Also install the torbrowser-launcher dependencies:
32 apt-get install tor python-gtk2 gnupg python-twisted
37 To build a Debian source package:
39 python setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command sdist_dsc
41 To build a Debian binary package:
43 python setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb
48 Once you've made a .deb, you can install by running this as root:
50 dpkg -i deb_dist/torbrowser-launcher_VERSION_all.deb