ERROR: Failed to [b]download: https://dist.torproject.org/torbrowser/5.5a4-hardened/tor-browser-linux64-5.5a4-hardened_en-US.tar.xz[/b]
Possible reasons:
- The download server is down.
- File size exceeded (endless data attack triggered).
- Tor Browser Downloader (by Whonix developers) has been broken due to upstream changes.
Recommendations:
- Try again later. If the error persists it probably won't solve itself before the next update.
- Check News: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Download#Stay_tuned
- Manually update: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Manually_Updating_Tor_Browser
(Debugging information: curl_status_message: [22] - [HTTP page not retrieved. The requested url was not found or returned another error with the HTTP error code being 400 or above. This return code only appears if -f, --fail is used.])</blockquote>
Hm. How awful. They changed the download link scheme again. There is no way to foresee such issues. (Unless programming some intelligence that guesses this.)
There is a workaround. You can set tb-updater’s TB_LANG variable to ALL. (case sensitive, make sure to write ALL with all upper case.) This is one method to do this:
Yeah, after I looked at the the download links, I realized what was going on.
I just manually downloaded the hardened version, checked the signature and merged it with both browser (~/tor-browser and ~/.tb/tor-browser) directories. Bookmarks and addons survived, as well as all browser settings.
So I’m content for now.
It looks as though they simply don’y have individual locales for the hardened browser (yet?), so my en_US downloader didn’t have anything to grab. No idea if this will be changing.
Anyway, thanks for all the hard work. I’ll keep testing things out and seeing what else I can break.
there will only be one bundle shipped supporting all the languages found in alpha builds. Tor Launcher should help selecting the desired locale during the first start taking the operating system locale into account.
Tor Launcher is disabled in Whonix. (For other reasons: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Tor_Browser#Whonix_Proxy_Settings) So language switching using Tor Launcher will not work. Should still be possible through Tor Browser (Firefox)'s usual settings.
Install and boot kernel linux-image-amd64. Or set environment variable ‘export ARCH_DOWNLOAD=linux64’. Or not. Even if installed by tb-updater or manually. It’s a dead end. Won’t work in Non-Qubes-Whonix. At least not with the Default/Download version. Because the architecture is 32 bit.
Experiment with multiarch. Try installing 64 bit packages also. Looks like an inefficient solution.
For now this is for Linux 64bit systems only but we are thinking about supporting OS X and Windows in the future as well.
Doesn't look like Linux 32 bit hardened TBB downloads will be provided anytime soon.
EDIT: It’s also very unlikely, that I will be producing downloadable 64 bit versions of Non-Qubes-Whonix. Too much maintenance effort. I try balance it by providing 32 bit Non-Qubes-Whonix for most/lower end systemd and providing 64 bit Qubes-Whonix for higher end systems.