Cannot install Tor from Tor Package Repository in Debian

Support Core Tor
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So I want to install latest Tor (standalone not browser) into my Ubuntu jammy but following the instruction by this link https://support.torproject.org/apt/tor-deb-repo/ when I run this command

# wget -qO- https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89.asc | gpg --dearmor | tee /usr/share/keyrings/tor-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null

I get error “gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found” !

What can I do about this error? Is there another way to add this gpg key?

2

Are you running that command as root?

3

That # is hinting OP is indeed running that chain as root. Although it might just be a copy-paste from the support site.

I’d simply go with Fedora and set up dnf-automatic, as the Tor package is kept up to date there.

4

Yes I get this error with root mode

5

Well I cannot easily move to Fedora so I prefer to find a way to resolve this problem. For now I just add trusted=yes into my repository to skip checking of gpg.

6

Can you visit this URL with your regular browser without Tor/VPN/proxy? Or torproject.org is blocked in your Internet provider?

7

Any URL related to torproject is blocked in my country but I use proxychains in my terminal to pass the censorship. This is not the matter. I saw this kind of error from other guys that their internet provider dosent block tor urls.

8

Can you run this command and see the output?

wget -qO- https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89.asc
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it returns lots of symbolic characters like "ط�s��z��P]������Ƹ�&S
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