There are instructions here but they assume that you already have a working browser. Manually Download Tor Browser
The walkthrough is “lengthy” because I have to write it lol.
Copy/paste these commands, one at a time, in any Terminal (all in Workstation; as user, no sudo):
download
mkdir /home/user/.tb
cd /home/user/.tb
wget -c https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/5.5.2/tor-browser-linux32-5.5.2_en-US.tar.xz
wget -c https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/5.5.2/tor-browser-linux32-5.5.2_en-US.tar.xz.asc
verify
please read https://www.torproject.org/docs/verifying-signatures.html.en
fundamental security concept
gpg --recv-keys 0x93298290
gpg --fingerprint 0x93298290
confirm that ‘Key fingerprint’ matches:
EF6E 286D DA85 EA2A 4BA7 DE68 4E2C 6E87 9329 8290
gpg --verify tor-browser-linux32-5.5.2_en-US.tar.xz.asc
make sure that the output says “Good signature”. warning is expected - we haven’t certified that it’s trusted.
extract & clean up
bsdtar -xf tor-browser-linux32-5.5.2_en-US.tar.xz
mv tor-browser_en-US tor-browser
rm tor-browser-linux32-5.5.2_en-US.tar*
launch
your Tor Browser icon on the desktop and appmenu should work now.