start-tor-browser.desktop exists but isn't found

[sonofevil]

 ~ $ torbrowser-launcher 
Tor Browser Launcher
By Micah Lee, licensed under MIT
version 0.3.6
https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser-launcher
Launching Tor Browser.
Running /home/lutra/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser/start-tor-browser.desktop
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/torbrowser-launcher", line 30, in <module>
    torbrowser_launcher.main()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/torbrowser_launcher/__init__.py", line 87, in main
    gui = Launcher(common, app, url_list)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/torbrowser_launcher/launcher.py", line 167, in __init__
    self.update()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/torbrowser_launcher/launcher.py", line 214, in update
    self.start(None)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/torbrowser_launcher/launcher.py", line 231, in start
    self.run_task()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/torbrowser_launcher/launcher.py", line 299, in run_task
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/torbrowser_launcher/launcher.py", line 479, in run
    subprocess.call(
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 345, in call
    with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as p:
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 971, in __init__
    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 1847, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/lutra/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser/start-tor-browser.desktop'

 ~ $ file /home/lutra/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser/start-tor-browser.desktop
/home/lutra/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser/start-tor-browser.desktop: a /usr/bin/env ./Browser/execdesktop script, Unicode text, UTF-8 text executable

How?

[davidbaumann]

How did you install torbrowser-launcher And which distribution are running it on?

[sonofevil]

I am on EndeavourOS with Arch Linux repos.

I installed torbrowser-launcher with yay -S torbrowser-launcher

[davidbaumann]

You might want to delete /home/lutra/.local/share/torbrowser/ and try again. I just checked on a fresh install, but cannot confirm your problem.

Maybe check file permissions of /home/lutra/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser/start-tor-browser.desktop first.

[sonofevil]

File permissions are rwxrwx--- and owner is me.

Problem persists after deleting ~/.share/torbrowser

[prnflks]

Same here on Arch.. ../share/torbrowser removed; torbrowser-launcher and tor package removed and reinstalled. It started downloading then dropped the same No such File or directory error

[Lunc4]

Hey, I'm in the exact same scenario as you. I solved it by installing it from the website: https://www.torproject.org/download/ Removing the previous tor files: rm -rf ~/.local/share/torbrowser/

Exctract the archive using: tar xvf ./tor-browser-linux-x86_64-13.0.tar.xz And then run the binary directly ./tor-browser/Browser/start-tor-browser