Latest updated Tor Browser needs glibc 2.8. But CentOS 7 has only glibc 2.7. Upgrading glibc to 2.8 may affect many packages. This article will describe how to install Tor Browser, which needs glibc 2.8, with Flatpak.
Table of Contents
1 Enable Flathub repository
If you want to apply Flathub repository to system wide not only current user, run flatpak command with sudo and not specifing –user.
$ flatpak remote-add --user flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
2 Install torbrowser-launcher
$ flatpak install -y flathub com.github.micahflee.torbrowser-launcher
If you change LANG after installing torbrowser-launcher, you need to reinstall torbrowser-launcher.
$ flatpak uninstall -y com.github.micahflee.torbrowser-launcher $ flatpak install -y flathub com.github.micahflee.torbrowser-launcher
3 Run torbrowser-launcher
Tor Browser desktop file is already registered. If you cannot find Tor Browser, just restart GNOME desktop with pressing alt + F2 and running r command.
You also can run Tor Browser with the following command line.
$ flatpak run com.github.micahflee.torbrowser-launcher
