Tb-updater won't load. depreciated?

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I can’t run tb-updater and don’t know if it’s been depreciated or if i was hacked somehow.

i checked sudo debsums -s * and ran sudo apt install --reinstall tb-updater and it still won’t run no matter what i do.

is this expected?

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Could you run update-torbrowser --input gui in a terminal, then copy and paste the exact output into a forum reply? (There was a bug in the GUI user interface that I created a fix for, but it may not be published yet. If the above command doesn’t just work, try just update-torbrowser and see if that works.)

See:

(Note: Whonix is based on Kicksecure.)

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update-torbrowser --input gui
update-torbrowser (user) [NOTICE]: Not running in a Qubes TemplateVM, ok.
update-torbrowser (user) [NOTICE]: ARCH ‘x86_64’ detected.
update-torbrowser (user) [NOTICE]: ARCH_DOWNLOAD ‘linux-x86_64’ detected.
update-torbrowser (user) [NOTICE]: CURL_PROXY: ‘–proxy socks5h://10.152.152.10:9115 --proxy-user 0:tb-updater_36KFCOGhVdRRbS4eMIW9b1934dWgjtCwN8tvodMcz9T’
update-torbrowser (user) [NOTICE]: Not running inside Qubes Disposable Template, ok.
update-torbrowser (user) [NOTICE]: Using stable version. For alpha version, see: Tor Browser Essentials
update-torbrowser (user) [NOTICE]: Running network interface available check…
update-torbrowser (user) [NOTICE]: Network interface available.
update-torbrowser (user) [NOTICE]: Running Tor enabled check…
/usr/libexec/helper-scripts/tor_enabled_check: line 43: file_name_list: unbound variable
zsh: exit 1 update-torbrowser --input gui

I am not running in a qubes template, I am running in virt-manager

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also

update-torbrowser
update-torbrowser (user) [NOTICE]: Not running in a Qubes TemplateVM, ok.
update-torbrowser (user) [NOTICE]: ARCH ‘x86_64’ detected.
update-torbrowser (user) [NOTICE]: ARCH_DOWNLOAD ‘linux-x86_64’ detected.
update-torbrowser (user) [NOTICE]: CURL_PROXY: ‘–proxy socks5h://10.152.152.10:9115 --proxy-user 0:tb-updater_oCtvHPpf0p0ttPK9PU03WabMgTefrBnwJvteq6M8VJR’
update-torbrowser (user) [NOTICE]: Not running inside Qubes Disposable Template, ok.
update-torbrowser (user) [NOTICE]: Using stable version. For alpha version, see: Tor Browser Essentials
update-torbrowser (user) [NOTICE]: Running network interface available check…
update-torbrowser (user) [NOTICE]: Network interface available.
update-torbrowser (user) [NOTICE]: Running Tor enabled check…
/usr/libexec/helper-scripts/tor_enabled_check: line 43: file_name_list: unbound variable
zsh: exit 1 update-torbrowser

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Yeah, this is the bug I fixed. You should get the fix via normal software updates. If you need to make things work now, boot into sysmaint mode, run sudo nano /usr/libexec/helper-scripts/tor_enabled_check, then apply this change:

(Just move your cursor to where the highlighted-green lines should be in the file, then type them in, save, and exit.)

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