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I've downloaded Tor Browser Bundle from https://www.torproject.org/download/download and extracted it to /home.

When I cd to tor-browser_en-US$ start-tor-browser and run start-tor-browser I get 

command not found

I can see the file start-tor-browser.desktop is in the directory. If I double-click the file in File Manager I get a spinning tooltip for a few seconds and then nothing.

I've tried changing the Permissions property Execute to Anyone. I've deleted and re-downloaded the TBB. I also tried sudo chmod +x start-tor-browser, but this also gave me 

No such file or directory

I've noticed tab autocomplete also doesn't pick up the file. It's as if my system can't see it.

Zanna
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Try ./start-tor-browser.desktop in the tor-browser directory.

As the command is not in your path, you need to prefix it with an absolute path. . points to current directory, so ./ effectively means file in current directory.

vidarlo
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  • Thank you. Embarrassing, I thought I knew this. It works. Strange that it doesn't work using the desktop shortcut though. –  Feb 04 '18 at 20:12
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    The issue is *not* that `start-tor-browser.desktop` is a relative path. It is, or would be if it were interpreted as a path, but the shell does not interpret it as a path, because *command names* that don't contain `/` aren't interpreted as paths. `./start-tor-browser.desktop`, like *all* paths that start with `./`, is itself a *relative* path, and not an absolute one. An absolute path starts with `/` (though it is possible to write an absolute path in a shell that starts with something that *expands* to something else that start with `/` -- for example, `~/` expands to an absolute path). – Eliah Kagan Apr 12 '18 at 15:42