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Once the onion network is established, I would like to run yt-dlp, however, I am hit by the error message saying no connection is established.. same goes to other software I use.

how can i dothat?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Open the tor browser and try if that works. If it does you do have internet. Some applications dont like when they are used over tor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

tor browser works

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Either use the --proxy option of yt-dlp, or use torsocks to transparently torify any application.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

thanks, for anything not running in the terminal, what other methods can one uses?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Options:

  • Just start it from the terminal with torsocks
  • Use application-specific proxy settings
  • Since torsocks simply uses LD_PRELOAD, you could try to make this apply globally by adding the torsocks library to ld.so.preload. Just put the path returned by torsocks show in /etc/ld.so.preload.