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bfgreen | 4 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 have you tried running Tor in Tails?
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The Beave | 4 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 That won't help me in my case. As usual, I'm trying to do something that should already be easy but no one else has bothered to make it work so I'm boned.
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Low Information Voter | 4 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I feel the pain.

Then again, I built and ran "Linux From Scratch" once, so maybe I'm a masochist.

If Pop OS has all the required build tools (looks like they do) and packaged libraries (probably), you should be able to plonk the source down in your /opt folder, build the TB binary in place, then just run TB from there without messing up your package manager.

I currently do this for FreeCAD, because Devuan's packaged build is ancient...
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The Beave | 4 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I refuse. I hate this. The stupid pop_os installer isn't working correctly. I'm... Kinda tired of pop and this might cause me to nuke everything and go back to mint.
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Low Information Voter | 4 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 That will work, too...
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The Beave | 4 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 It's a lot more work since I need to figure out WTF to back up. There's a lot of dead digital junk on my laptop at this point.
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Low Information Voter | 4 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Ha! I know how that is! 

Years ago I built a 1TB encrypted RAID array to be my digital sock drawer. I resist every temptation to expand it, instead going over it and deleting stuff whenever its getting full. Tedious - but very necessary for me...