Same issue with the official Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, released on the 21st April 2022.

The shortcuts on menu and desktop are created, but it is not able to download the latest Tor Browser release.

The install crashed every time we launch Tor Browser Launcher with same error.

Same on Kali Linux:

Kernel: 5.8.0-kali3-amd64
Release: 2022.2
Codename: kali-rolling

All: This is a Python 3.10 issue introduced by heavier strictness - see #599 - it's the same issue regardless of the distro in use

I guess it's fixed because it's closed, but 0.3.3.6 is still the installable deb package and it fails to run.
I understand it's updated on flatpak ... which I uninstalled completely since it sucks at memory management and bloats my Linux, example, on a brand new Ubuntu 22.04:

Required runtime for com.github.micahflee.torbrowser-launcher/x86_64/stable (runtime/org.kde.Platform/x86_64/5.15-21.08) found in remote flathub
        ID                                                  Branch     Op Remote  Download
 1. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default                 21.08      i  flathub   131.0 MB
 2. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-515-48-07        1.4        i  flathub   361.3 MB
 3. [ ] org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264                   2.0        i  flathub   < 1.5 MB
 4. [ ] org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Pop-dark                          3.22       i  flathub < 226.0 kB
 5. [ ] org.kde.Platform.Locale                             5.15-21.08 i  flathub < 345.7 MB (partial)
 6. [ ] org.kde.PlatformTheme.QGnomePlatform                5.15-21.08 i  flathub  < 10.0 MB
 7. [ ] org.kde.PlatformTheme.QtSNI                         5.15-21.08 i  flathub   < 1.3 MB
 8. [ ] org.kde.WaylandDecoration.QGnomePlatform-decoration 5.15-21.08 i  flathub  < 10.5 MB
 9. [ ] org.kde.Platform                                    5.15-21.08 i  flathub < 306.9 MB
10. [ ] com.github.micahflee.torbrowser-launcher            stable     i  flathub   < 8.0 MB

Yeah, around 1.3GB, just to launch already present Tor!

The only useful flatpak commands I know is flatpak uninstall --all and its friend: rm -R ~/.local/share/flatpak

Hope it will be updated soon as deb.
Meanwhile CLI is my friend: <tor_location>/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach or copy the downloaded Tor Browser .desktop file and it's folder into ~/.local/share/applications and ALT+F2 > r
Have a great day!

According to this Q&A from Ask Ubuntu, the location of the __init__.py file is at /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/torbrowser_launcher/__init__.py - in case you haven't been able to find this info by looking at only GitHub comments.

I think I will try to report this directly on Ubuntu Launchpad, as this is affecting me on Pop!_OS 22.04. However, this issue doesn't occur on Debian Sid, which is on version 0.3.5-3 and doesn't experience this issue. (The bug tracker hasn't seen any activity since 2019.)

For whatever reason, Ubuntu's packaging of torbrowser-launcher lags behind upstream Debian Sid (even for the latest, non-LTS releases of Ubuntu). Even the upcoming release Kinetic is still on 0.3.3-6ubuntu1.

You may compare Jammy with Debian Sid. Also, you can compare Ubuntu's changelog with the GitHub release tags.

The same fail, Pop!_OS 22.04, python 3.10
Even if set python to 3.9:
sudo update-alternatives --config python

Open as root file
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/torbrowser_launcher/init.py

At the end of the file (lines 98 - 101) locate:

            gui.move(
                (desktop.width() - window_size.width()) / 2,
                (desktop.height() - window_size.height()) / 2
            )

Edit it to:

            gui.move(
                (desktop.width() - window_size.width()) // 2,
                (desktop.height() - window_size.height()) // 2
            )

As you see, the difference is replacing / with //.

Done.

Awesome, thanks @icceland !
I can confirm that this made it work on 22.04.

Did you make a pull request?

Thanks for your kind answer @Am0rphous .
I'm honestly glad to be somehow helpful. I'm barely familiar with github structure and out of time to learn it at the moment. It would be generous if you could do this for me and all thees other users out there.
Feel free to do it for me. Can we count with you?
Kind regards!

Awesome, thanks @icceland ! I can confirm that this made it work on 22.04.

Did you make a pull request?

Thanks for your kind answer @Am0rphous . I'm honestly glad to be somehow helpful. I'm barely familiar with github structure and out of time to learn it at the moment. It would be generous if you could do this for me and all thees other users out there. Feel free to do it for me. Can we count with you? Kind regards!

Awesome, thanks @icceland ! I can confirm that this made it work on 22.04.
Did you make a pull request?

I was already prepping a patch that I can SRU into Ubuntu's packaging. I can adapt it to a PR and give you credit in the commit message @icceland.

@icceland and others: Pull request made (see #646) using the code as stated here by icceland modified into the init file as based here in the code (which is ${GIT_ROOT}/torbrowser_launcher/__init__.py)

Seems @teward was a bit faster then me @icceland :D

Thanks to both of you!! 🥇🥇

The bug fix by @teward for Ubuntu's packaging will likely be processed in at least 1 week before PR #646 is accepted here on GitHub.

Hello,

How do I open the file init.py to modify it?

Thank you!

I managed to open the init.py file with the Qt Creator application but I can't save the changes I made because I don't have the permission.
Should I open the init.py file in root mode and if so, how should I do?

Thanks a lot!

@siriusstar2007 Yes, use e.g. nano.
sudo nano /name/my/file

FYI in Ubuntu 22.04 this has been fixed with my patch and an SRU.

Fixed in 8c69da1