torbrowser-launcher command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

torbrowser-launcher: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: torbrowser-launcher: command not found

Solutions to torbrowser-launcher: command not found

How To Fix torbrowser-launcher: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu torbrowser-launcher is provided by torbrowser-launcher package.

torbrowser-launcher is:

Tor Browser Launcher is intended to make the Tor Browser Bundle (TBB) easier to maintain and use for GNU/Linux users. torbrowser-launcher handles downloading the most recent version of TBB for you, in your language and for your architecture. It also adds a “Tor Browser” application launcher to your operating system’s menu.

When you first launch Tor Browser Launcher, it will download TBB from https://www.torproject.org/ and extract it to ~/.local/share/torbrowser, and then execute it. Cache and configuration files will be stored in ~/.cache/torbrowser and ~/.config/torbrowser. Each subsequent execution after installation will simply launch the most recent TBB, which is updated using Tor Browser’s own update feature.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install torbrowser-launcher

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install torbrowser-launcher.

sudo apt -y install torbrowser-launcher

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install torbrowser-launcher

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix torbrowser-launcher command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.