Install Tor Browser 4.0.1 in Linux Mint and Ubuntu Based Distro

Install Tor Browser 4.0.1 in Linux Mint and Ubuntu Based Distro

Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. It also enables software developers to create new communication tools with built-in privacy features. Tor provides the foundation for a range of applications that allow organizations and individuals to share information over public networks without compromising their privacy.

For those not familiar with SelekTOR, here's a quick list of features:

• automatically sets up your web browser to use Tor, without any addons (supports Google Chrome, Chromium, Opera, Palemoon, Iceweasel and Firefox);
• can be used in two modes: Proxy all Traffic or Proxy by Pattern (with the latter, Tor will only be used for websites matching a pattern you can set in the SelekTOR settings);
• allows you to quickly select the Tor exit nodes by country (useful to access websites which aren't available in your country, such as Netflix, Hulu, CBS, ABC, Pandora, British TV, HBO Go and so on);
• Nodes are filtered to ensure that they support HTTP on port 80, and thus ensuring greater reliability when used with web browsers;
• Whois and Atlas Node details (pretty graphs) available with a single mouse click

Other new advanced options available in the latest SelekTOR include:

• set the Tor logging level (Debug, Info or Notice;;
• re-implemented the default HTTP proxy (any traffic not routed through Tor will be redirected through this HTTP proxy);
• avoid disk writes (when enabled, Tor tries to disk less frequently);
• optional startup arguments which can be passed to Tor.

To Install Tor Browser 4.0.1 in Linux Ubuntu (12.04, 12.10, 13.04, 13.10, 14.0, 14.10), mint (14,15,16,17) and ubuntu derivative system using ppa's, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/tor-browser
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tor-browser

Optional, to remove tor browser, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo apt-get remove tor-browser