Tor and Wine in GNOME fail after U10.04 --> 12.04 upgrade

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Gents:

I have become comfortable with GNOME-3 Classic in my U12.04 Intel workstation so I pulled-the-trigger on my legacy box.

Using the UPGRADE function in Ubuntu Update.manager I moved my legacy AMD.965/MSI.7900-gd70/BFG9800gtx+ system from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04.3 both LTS. OS transfer and config took about 3 hours ... uneventful except for various threats and one wordless pop-up box of mini-squares yep! ... and afterward dammm-near everything came-over working ... so says prelim tests and even the Epson scanner and HP-laserjet work.

Google-Earth failed, but reinstall is trivial. Unity is of-course an unspeakable snot-nosed potty-mouth cartoon. GNOME installed without issue once I found the )&*T!@V!*B~ terminal.

Tor refuses to load claiming that a non-existant browser PROXY is a bother. Vidalia-icon is XXed-out. Makes no sense as I never use proxy! Interesting, FireFox has its Proxy slots blank-as-always, but CHROME proxy slot is "grayed-out" so no choice is possible whatever that means.

WINE/apps appear hosed including precious freebee Photoshop & TopSpice programs. The apps are there all right, but chosing one gets a "loading" text-message then nothing. Won't run. I can play with it more; but, it looks like WINE-in-12.04 can't deal with apps it sucked-in for U10.04.

Any ideas for foxing the TOR and WINE issues will be appreciated. Thanks to Ms AMDgurl for advising patience.

 
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Try installing playonlinux and winetricks and see if they can't show you what you are missing.

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once I found the )&*T!@V!*B~ terminal
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Finding anything in Unity only requires you open the search icon top left and start typing, I got Terminal as first choice after I typed only te. I could have hit enter and been in.
CHROME proxy slot is "grayed-out"
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Chrome uses the system proxy settings, once set there it's set in chrome as well.
 
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I will DLoad "winetricks" ...

Setting proxy ..... sorry to be clueless I do NOT have the concept! I don't know what is a "systems proxy" or perhaps all proxies ARE system proxy. I see the boxes & words of-course ... In-the-day I used a proxy-setting with Proxomitron in WinME, but I understood that PROXO-setting pointed at the browser .... what it means to set-a-proxy for the system does not call up for me any specific action or implications.
 
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I DLoaded 'playonlinux' ... and run CLI it fails with the error:

p11-kit: couldn't load module: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

WINETRICKS was already installed. When -run- it reconfigured some stuff: TOPSPICE runs, but does not print properly. Adobe hardlocks its desktop. I'll try to KILL-9 it from here ... later.

Adobe PHOTOSHOP works ... ADOBE Illustrator trashes the window. TOPSPICE produces complete plots that can be exported as *.bmp files and printed successfully. But, printing from within SPICE produces images with various missing parts.
 
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Should you ever need to set your proxy click on your user name top right, select system settings and the on the network icon and there you set it.

Tor. I just installed it on mine and no problems. Perhaps you need to sudo killall tor and restart it.
 
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I have un-installed TOR using Synaptic .. but ofcourse I could not ever really tell you what I had installed -- some unknown mix of TOR and VIDALIA. Question now is whether I should just re-install from Ubuntu repo or use the TOR BUNDLE the TOR site advises. I do not know the implications of installing the TOR BUNDLE or what advantage I gain. Does it interfere with TOR_less surfing or other browsers should you choose? Which CIA division produces the code?

Also, what does VIDALIA have to do with TOR? Is it a front end/back-end/side-end ... GUI/CLI WTF ....? Is it like PGP ... a byteboi tool only infinitly more trouble than it's worth?

**BTW** When I click-my-name (upper right) I have no listed choice for "system settings". I blundered into a way of using TOR: from CLI

chromium-browser --proxy-server=socks://localhost:9050

This is from:http://goshawknest.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/how-to-easily-set-up-tor-in-your-ubuntu-desktop/

For me this is feckin-A ragged-edge of computer skills with zero understanding yet vdesirable outcome when it works whatever it is/does ... Don't ask don't tell.
 
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Uninstalled TOR, Vidalia & Chrome. Obvious all got hosed by the upgrade. Re-installed TOR+pals+Chrome from Synaptic. Works! Chrome surfs-away from a South Pacific atoll ... no solution yet (but, export) for printing errors in TOPSPICE.
 
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