I downloaded tor but can't start it. This is what I keep getting 

~$ start-tor-browser start-tor-browser: command not found

I did download it, but just can't open it.

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You didn't provide much information but I suppose you downloaded the tor browser bundle. Now you have a *.tar.xz archive somewhere in you home directory. What you have to do is to extract the archive and start tor.

I will presume that you downloaded the archive to ~/Downloads directory. First you have to change the directory to the place where you downloaded the bundle. You can do it by entering the following command:

cd ~/Downloads

and extract the bundle via the following command (pay attention to the actual file name)

tar xf tor-browser-linux64-3.6_en-US.tar.xz

After you've extracted the archive, a new directory will be available, in my case it was ~/Downloads/tor-browser_en-US, you have to change the directory once again:

cd tor-browser_en-US

and now you will be able to start the browser via following command:

./start-tor-browser

Please be aware that you will have to adapt the previous commands depending on the location where you downloaded the tor browser bundle and what bundle you've actually downloaded.