Install Tor Browser on Rocky Linux 9 | AlmaLinux 9

This guide will take you through how to install Tor Browser on Rocky Linux 9 | AlmaLinux 9. The Tor browser is a web browser designed for anonymous web surfing, In order to hide a user’s location and usage from anyone doing network surveillance or traffic analysis, it routes Internet traffic through a free, global, volunteer overlay network made up of more than 7,000 relays.

It is more challenging to track a user’s online behavior while they are using Tor. The purpose of Tor is to safeguard its users’ right to personal privacy as well as their freedom and capacity for secure communication by employing Tor exit nodes to mask their IP addresses.

How to Install Tor Browser on Rocky Linux 9 | AlmaLinux 9

Update your system using the command below.

sudo dnf update

Install Flatpak using the following command just in case it’s missing on your system.

sudo dnf install flatpak -y

Then reboot your system.

reboot

Enable Flatpak.

sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Next, install Tor Browser.

flatpak install flathub com.github.micahflee.torbrowser-launcher -y

Sample output

com.github.micahflee.torbrowser-launcher permissions:
    ipc                 network    fallback-x11    pulseaudio
    wayland             x11        dri             file access [1]
    dbus access [2]

    [1] xdg-config/kdeglobals:ro, xdg-download
    [2] com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar,
        org.freedesktop.Notifications, org.kde.KGlobalSettings,
        org.kde.kconfig.notify


        ID                                                  Branch     Op Remote  Download
 1. [✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default                 21.08      i  flathub 131.0 MB / 131.3 MB
 2. [✓] org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264                   2.0        i  flathub   1.5 MB / 1.5 MB
 3. [✓] org.kde.KStyle.Adwaita                              5.15-21.08 i  flathub   6.6 MB / 6.6 MB
 4. [✓] org.kde.Platform.Locale                             5.15-21.08 i  flathub  17.8 kB / 345.7 MB
 5. [✓] org.kde.PlatformTheme.QGnomePlatform                5.15-21.08 i  flathub  10.0 MB / 10.0 MB
 6. [✓] org.kde.PlatformTheme.QtSNI                         5.15-21.08 i  flathub   1.3 MB / 1.3 MB
 7. [✓] org.kde.WaylandDecoration.QGnomePlatform-decoration 5.15-21.08 i  flathub   6.1 MB / 10.5 MB
 8. [✓] org.kde.Platform                                    5.15-21.08 i  flathub 244.9 MB / 306.9 MB
 9. [✓] com.github.micahflee.torbrowser-launcher            stable     i  flathub   6.8 MB / 8.0 MB

Installation complete.

Launch Tor Browser using terminal.

flatpak run com.github.micahflee.torbrowser-launcher

Alternatively, Tor Browser can be launched from the application menu.

After opening, the Tor browser will be downloaded.

Click the connect button to initiate a connection.

You can now surf the web anonymously.

That concludes our article, Cheers!

Read more on Tor Browser User Manual

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