I’ve been attempting to install tor browser on secureblue. At every turn something has prevented it from launching. so far best I can tell its a userns problem, but even the ujust command to enable that has not fixed it. I would really love advice about this. if I cannot use tor browser on this os i…

Did you disable hardened_malloc for Tor only? AFAIK it doesn’t play well with Firefox

[image] anon64393690: AFAIK it doesn’t play well with Firefox If Firefox is built with --enable-replace-malloc it would work.

flatpak install https://dl.flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.torproject.torbrowser-launcher.flatpakref flatpak --user override --env=LD_PRELOAD= org.torproject.torbrowser-launcher

Running Tor Browser with a weakened sandbox due to Flatpak is not a good option. Better layer it.

[image] sha123: weakened sandbox Better to just run Tails in a VM? [image] sha123: Better layer it. but then you’d have to ujust with-standard-malloc tor-browser-launcher in a terminal each and every time

You can remove LD_PRELOAD with Flatseal if you want a GUI. [Screenshot From 2025-12-17 18-28-20_1]

Have you thought about using Whonix via virt-manager? If that is a bit too much work for you, you can also use Gnome Boxes or Distro Box to run Tor Browser in just about any Linux distribution you want within SecureBlue

So what is the recommended way to install Tor on Secureblue?

@RoyalOughtness could you please let me know what the recommended way is to install Tor (and other browsers)? I am not on Discord and do not know where else to get support. Thank you!

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You would still run into the same problem and have to remove LD_PRELOAD from the Flatpak.

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