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slim marten May 3, 2025, 2:39 PM

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I'm trying to download zen on Ubuntu linux and I'm having trouble getting it to show up as a desktop icon I can pin to my taskbar. I recently did some spring cleaning and installed a fresh ubuntu, but on my previous system zen worked perfectly fine and I was able to pin it to my taskbar like a any other application. I'm kinda new to linux, so that might be the source of my problem, but I've tried every download option and it's made the zen app hidden beneath a bunch of different folders and things and then when I open the app, I can't pin it to my taskbar. Furthermore, it just shows a gear icon rather than the zen logo.

whole skiff May 3, 2025, 2:42 PM

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Are you using the tarball?

slim marten May 3, 2025, 2:43 PM

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Yes

whole skiff May 3, 2025, 2:50 PM

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slim marten Yes

Try using the tarball installer on the GitHub page (the bash command)

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bash <(curl -s https://updates.zen-browser.app/install.sh)

slim marten May 3, 2025, 2:55 PM

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When I do I get this error:

Extracting Zen Browser...
xz: (stdin): File format not recognized
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

slim marten May 3, 2025, 2:58 PM

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whole skiff `bash <(curl -s https://updates.zen-browser.app/install.sh)`

also how do I get my text to look like code like that }:3

whole skiff May 3, 2025, 2:59 PM

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` for inline code

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One before and one after

whole skiff May 3, 2025, 3:00 PM

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slim marten When I do I get this error: Extracting Zen Browser... xz: (stdin): File format ...

Hmmm
Is there any more info?

slim marten May 3, 2025, 3:01 PM

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Not to my knowledge, that's all I'm given

whole skiff May 3, 2025, 3:01 PM

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It's your trusty old tar.xz why wouldn't it be capable of extracting that

slim marten May 3, 2025, 3:02 PM

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🤷

whole skiff May 3, 2025, 3:04 PM

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Hmmm
Try another internet

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It might be GitHub sending garbage to you

slim marten May 3, 2025, 3:06 PM

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Same thing

whole skiff May 3, 2025, 3:07 PM

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Can you curl -L -o ~/zen.tar.xz https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/releases/latest/download/zen.linux-x86_64.tar.xz?

slim marten May 3, 2025, 3:09 PM

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                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
100 74.6M  100 74.6M    0     0  30.7M      0  0:00:02  0:00:02 --:--:-- 33.4M

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That is the result. No text, just that and then returns to the cli input

whole skiff May 3, 2025, 3:13 PM

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slim marten ``` % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Curre...

So can you see if there's a tarball on your home directory

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There should be a file named Zen.tar.xz

slim marten May 3, 2025, 3:13 PM

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There is

whole skiff May 3, 2025, 3:16 PM

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Open in and see if the contents are normal
Send me a list if you don't know

slim marten May 3, 2025, 3:20 PM

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It seems normal to me? It looks to be what was in the zen folder from the other times I tried to download it

slim marten May 3, 2025, 3:37 PM

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I'm realizing this might be a problem with my system because I'm trying to download Tor browser as well and I'm having the same problem where it stays a gear icon that I have to dig for through files and I can't pin to my taskbar. I can't for the life of me remember what I did to get it to pin the app before

whole skiff May 4, 2025, 2:39 PM

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slim marten I'm realizing this might be a problem with my system because I'm trying to downl...

Idk if there's an easy way to make a .desktop file

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(besides the trusty text editor)

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it might be your tar's fault

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