Kubuntu 20.04
I’m following the instructions at INSTALLATION | Tor Project | Tor Browser Manual , and after downloading Tor, the keyring part of things has an error.
The Tor download from https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/11.0.3/tor-browser-linux64-11.0.3_en-US.tar.xz is in ~/Downloads/Tor
$ cd Downloads/Tor
:~/Downloads/Tor$ sudo gpg --auto-key-locate nodefault,wkd --locate-keys torbrowser@torproject.org
gpg: directory '/root/.gnupg' created
gpg: keybox '/root/.gnupg/pubring.kbx' created
gpg: /root/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 4E2C6E8793298290: public key "Tor Browser Developers (signing key) <torbrowser@torproject.org>" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1
pub rsa4096 2014-12-15 [C] [expires: 2025-07-21]
EF6E286DDA85EA2A4BA7DE684E2C6E8793298290
uid [ unknown] Tor Browser Developers (signing key) <torbrowser@torproject.org>
sub rsa4096 2021-09-17 [S] [expires: 2023-09-17]
:~/Downloads/Tor$ gpg --output ./tor.keyring --export
0xEF6E286DDA85EA2A4BA7DE684E2C6E8793298290
gpg: keybox '/home/eter/.gnupg/pubring.kbx' created
gpg: WARNING: nothing exported
:~/Downloads/Tor$ gpgv --keyring ./tor.keyring ~/Downloads/Tor/tor-browser-linux64-9.0_en-US.tar.xz.asc ~/Downloads/Tor/tor-browser-linux64-11.0.3_en-US.tar.xz
gpgv: keyblock resource './tor.keyring': No such file or directory
gpgv: can't open '/home/********/Downloads/Tor/tor-browser-linux64-9.0_en-US.tar.xz.asc': No such file or directory
gpgv: verify signatures failed: No such file or directory
~/Downloads/Tor$ curl -s https://openpgpkey.torproject.org/.well-known/openpgpkey/torproject.org/hu/kounek7zrdx745qydx6p59t9mqjpuhdf |gpg --import -
gpg: /home/********/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 4E2C6E8793298290: public key "Tor Browser Developers (signing key) <torbrowser@torproject.org>" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1
There is no .asc file created to be able to then perform the command
$ gpgv --keyring ./tor.keyring ~/Downloads/Tor/tor-browser-linux64-9.0_en-US.tar.xz.asc ~/Downloads/Tor/tor-browser-linux64-11.0.3_en-US.tar.xz
Also, why create a path called “root” when in Linux ‘root’ == ‘/’ ?