[tor-bugs] #27278 [Webpages/Website]: Bad Instruction Page

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#27278: Bad Instruction Page
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 Reporter:  TormanToo         |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect            |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Very High         |      Milestone:
Component:  Webpages/Website  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal            |     Resolution:
 Keywords:                    |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:                    |         Points:
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Comment (by TormanToo):

 I chose Option Two then I selected Ubuntu Xenial Xerus 16.04LTS.  There is
 a whole litany of issues.

 1. I manually added the two lines to the /etc/apt/sources.list file.

 2. Then I tried apt install apt-transport-https.  I got these results:
 E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission
 denied)
 E: Unable to lock the administration directory  (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you
 root?

 The writer forgot sudo.  But tried that and got:
 Reading package lists... Done
 Building dependency tree
 Reading state information... Done
 apt-transport-https is already the newest version (1.2.27)
 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

 3. Next it says, to use Apt with Tor later replace https:// with tor://
 and run apt install apt-transport-tor.  Why doesn't it just say to do that
 to begin with?  There is no explanation.

 apt install apt-transport-tor

 E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission
 denied)
 E: Unable to lock the administration directory  (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you
 root?

 The writer forgot sudo again.  Tried with it and got:
 Building dependency tree
 Reading state information... Done
 The following additional packages will be installed;
   tor tor-geioipdb torsocks
 Suggested packages:
   mixmaster torbrowser-launcher socat tor-arm apparmor-utils obfs4proxy
 The following NEW packages will be installed:
   apt-transport-tor tor tor-geoipbd torsocks
 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
 E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/tor could not be found.

 4. Attempting to add the two keys causes errors also.
 gpg --recv A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89
 gpg: no keyserver known (use opton --keyserver)
 gpg: keyserver receive failed: bad URI

 So I tried:
 gpg --recv --keyserver A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89
 I got the prompt back, so I guess something happened.

 Next I tried:
 gpg --export A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89 | sudo apt-key add -
 gpg: can't open '/home/me/.gnupg/pubring.gpg'
 gpg: WARNING: nothing exported
 gpg: key export failted: file open error
 gpg:no valid OpenPGP data found.

 So then I tried:
 sudo gpg --export A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89 | sudo apt-key
 add -
 gpg: WARNING: nothing exported
 gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.

 5. "You can install it with the following commands:"  Install what????

 6. apt update:
 Forgot sudo again.
 sudo apt update
 .....
 .....
 E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/tor could not be found.
 .....
 .....


 Another forgotten sudo, but running:
 sudo apt install tor deb.torproject.org-keyring
 This got the normal responses, plus ended with:
 E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/tor could not be found.

 But after all this, Tor was still not showing up on any menu.

 7. No one did any proof reading to the line, "deb.torproject.org is also
 served through now also served via onion service:
 http://sdscoq7snqtznauu.onion/".  It's also missing punctuation.

 8. "To use the onion service..."  What?????

 Proof read and test!!!!

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