I am running a Raspberry Pi Raspbian OS (debian) mini computer. Tor software does not support this hardware without me having to compile it myself for my platform. Which I don’t know how to do.
My specific APT error message says this:
N: Skipping acquire of configured file ‘main/binary-armhf/Packages’ as repository ‘https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org bookworm InRelease’ doesn’t support architecture ‘armhf’
The Raspberry Pi is a perfect computer to run Tor because it has 8 GB RAM, is tiny, only uses a max of 25 watts of power and works great as a network server. Plus, I don’t have to leave my big power hungry desktop computer on all the time to run Tor.
If you have an RPi with 8GB of RAM you have either a RPi4 or RPi5. They
both have aarch64/arm64-capable processors, and many Linux distros with
support for this arch have aarch64 packages of the Tor daemon you can
use + deb.torproject.org has aarch64 builds for bookworm.
I suggest installing a aarch64 OS, Raspberry Pi OS has aarch64 images
for example.
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On Sat, 17 Aug 2024 19:35:46 -0600 Landon <reply@mynetblog.com> wrote:
The Raspberry Pi is a perfect computer to run Tor because it has 8 GB
RAM, is tiny, only uses a max of 25 watts of power and works great as
a network server. Plus, I don't have to leave my big power hungry
desktop computer on all the time to run Tor.
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Current PGP KeyID: 0AFB427F1800FD89751C4035292228735AE707FF
Linux pi 6.6.31+rpt-rpi-2712 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.6.31-1+rpt1 (2024-05-29) aarch64 GNU/Linux
I was using aarch64 when I tried to install Tor from deb.torproject.org. I was able to install Tor from the debian archives instead. However, as I have found out over the years that I have been running a Tor server, Debian does not always have the latest version of Tor. Sometimes Debian is so out of date that Tor suggests that people don’t use my Tor server. (For my production Tor server, I am running a VPS with Debian and Tor packages from deb.torproject.org)
I highly recommend that everyone get one because it is inexpensive, is a badass little computer and is a fun toy!! Plus the Pi 5 has a PCIe header where you can attach an NVMe drive. I bought this case designed for a NVMe M.2 drive: https://thepihut.com/products/argon-neo-5-m-2-nvme-case-for-raspberry-pi-5
If you have an RPi with 8GB of RAM you have either a RPi4 or RPi5. They
both have aarch64/arm64-capable processors, and many Linux distros with
support for this arch have aarch64 packages of the Tor daemon you can
use + deb.torproject.org has aarch64 builds for bookworm.
I suggest installing a aarch64 OS, Raspberry Pi OS has aarch64 images
for example.