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I got a mail from a reader that had a question about my previous story in which I installed the KDE Desktop on my Raspberry Pi OS.
He saw that I installed the TOR browser and wondered how I did that as it is not officially listed in the Raspberry program list (repository) , but it is also not available in Discover (the KDE program list).
I am going to show you how you can install the TOR browser and a lot of other programs that are not listed in the official repositories.
Pi-Apps
Somewhere on the internet I found a link to a website that is the home of a program called Pi-Apps. The link is this: https://pi-apps.io/
Pi-Apps is a repository that offers all kinds of Raspberry Pi specific programs that are (or were) not available in the official Raspberry repository.
You actually have to trust the developers who post programs there as they are not linked to the Raspberry Pi organization.
On the other hand I have to mention that this service has been around since a long time and I have never heard about any problems with it (viruses or spyware). They claim that more than 1.000.000 people have used their service. If there was something wrong with one of their apps you should have heard about it by now.
So I can recommend Pi-Apps as a second repository for Raspberry specific software that can not be found in the Raspberry's own repository or in Discover (the KDE repository).
Installing Pi-Apps
To install Pi-Apps you first have to visit the website https://pi-apps.io/
On this webpage there is a big INSTALL button. Click that button and a new webpage opens.
On this webpage are the instructions and they are very simple.
First open a terminal (Konsole) window and paste in the following line:
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Botspot/pi-apps/master/install | bash
Then press enter and the package gets installed.
Using Pi-Apps
Pi-Apps can be found in the Utilities section of the desktop menu.
Click in the menu on the Pi-Apps entry and a window will open. For those that don't recognize this screen: it is the KDE desktop running on a Raspberry Pi. I can really recommend that !!
This is the main window and shows all available categories with programs.
Take your time and scroll through the lists with programs. Some sections have sub-menu's.
In the internet section for example there is a submenu for all the available browsers.
And there we find near the bottom of the list the TOR browser.
Clicking once on the icon or the name will open a separate window in which you will find a short description of the package.
At the bottom of that window there is a button that shows the scripts that are used to install or uninstall the selected package.
Next to that is the button that installs or uninstalls the chosen program.
In this example the TOR browser is already installed so I can only chose uninstall.
Settings
At the bottom of the window there is the familiar looking glass for searching apps but also the gear icon that opens the settings menu.
I would leave the settings as is. However make sure Check for updates is set to daily so you can be sure you always have the most up to date list of available packages.
Till next time
have fun
Luc Volders