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How can I connect to GNUnet 0.8.1 on 11.10?

rated 0 times [ 6] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 2912 / 1 Year ago, tue, january 17, 2023, 11:35:02

As the SOPA/PIPA storm was brewing, I thought I should give some of the new tools people were talking about a try. After reading around and checking what was available in the repos, I picked GNUnet. I want to be able to download Linux ISOs on P2P without anyone being able to tell if I have defected to Sabayon :)

(You shouldn't use BitTorrent over Tor. It's too heavy for that network, and your IP address gets revealed at the end point.)

I have installed GNUnet Secured P2P 0.8.1 (package name gnunet-gtk) and gnunet-server.

I ran the configuration wizard, picking my network interface and all the default options. I got a prompt saying Unable to change startup process: Success. I ran it again and this time also ticked "Start the GNUnet background process". It then completed with no prompt. (My network interface defaults to lo rather than wlan0 each time. I leave IP/hostname blank because I have a dynamic IP address - should I enter computername.local?)

I ran the advanced configuration tool, and changed the hostlists from http://gnunet.org/hostlist.php http://gnunet.mine.nu:8081/hostlist http://vserver1236.vserver-on.de/hostlist-074 http://mosquito.dyndns.tv/gnunet-hostlist/hostlist http://de.gnunet.org/hostli to http://mosquito.dyndns.tv/gnunet-hostlist/hostlist http://de.gnunet.org/hostlist-080 http://vserver1236.vserver-on.de/hostlist-074. (Per https://gnunet.org/node/1190 and http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnunet/2010-10/msg00000.html )

When the GNUnet GUI starts the message bar reads "Daemon running". After a while it reads "Disconnected".

What do I need to do to connect?

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answered 1 Year ago rontablis · Accepted Answer

Apparently, GNUnet version 0.8 is depreciated and all the effort is being invested in developing version 0.9. (Source)

I have used the steps from the installation instructions for Ubuntu from GNUnet site for installing GNUnet version 0.9.

First, make sure Subversion is installed on your system:

sudo apt-get install subversion

Then, install libextractor dependencies:

sudo apt-get install automake autopoint autoconf libtool make gcc g++ gettext texinfo

sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev libgsf-1-dev libmpeg2-4-dev libpoppler-dev

Build libextractor:

svn checkout https://gnunet.org/svn/Extractor

cd Extractor

./bootstrap

./configure

make; sudo make install; make check

cd ..

Note that 'make check' is optional here.

Install libmicrohttpd dependencies:

sudo apt-get install gnutls-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev

Build libmicrohttpd:

svn co https://gnunet.org/svn/libmicrohttpd

cd libmicrohttpd/

./bootstrap

./configure --with-gnutls --enable-messages --enable-curl

make; sudo make install; make check

cd ..

Again, 'make check' is optional (and may fail if you are running services already on certain ports, like 1080).

Install GNUnet dependencies:

sudo apt-get install libltdl7-dev automake autoconf libtool make gcc texinfo

sudo apt-get install libgcrypt11-dev libgmp3-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev cvs libunistring-dev

sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev libsqlite3-dev libpq-dev

sudo apt-get install libesmtp-dev libpcap-dev

Build GNUnet:

You can specify the location of the GNUnet installation by setting the prefix when calling the configure script: --prefix=$HOME/gnbuild

To build GNUnet execute:

svn checkout https://gnunet.org/svn/gnunet/

cd gnunet/

./bootstrap

./configure --prefix=$HOME/gnbuild --with-extractor=/usr/local

make; sudo make install

You have to set the GNUNET_PREFIX environment variable according to the prefix you set for the configure script and you have to add your GNUnet installation to your search path:

export GNUNET_PREFIX=$HOME/gnbuild

export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/gnbuild/bin

Now you can test your installation by running:

make check