Request: Onionshare

[Kulmbacher]

OnionShare is an open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share a file of any size via TorRelay
https://onionshare.org/

MXPI found it in Debian Backports

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Thank you

[manyroads]

If it's in MXPI Backports, then it is available.

[Stevo]

Debian testing has a slightly newer 1.3.2 version than backports I could try adding...But I see the developer has a PPA where he has 2.0, too.

[Stevo]

Well, both 1.3.2 and 2.0 seem to work after building and installing, so I think 1.3.2 from Buster will go to main and 2.0 to testing, with the torbrowser-launcher dependency from backports going to main also.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1QwHQ6 ... CK5J0wGZjn

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1NzIxI ... 2meaS6r78h

[Kulmbacher]

thank you Stevo

[fan_of_LTS]

I hadn't previously used flatpaks so maybe I screwed it up. I did see the flatpak in MXPI and tried it. Maybe I was too bleary eyed but I thought it worked the first time and hasn't launched since. I saw it at https://docs.onionshare.org/2.3/en/install.html

At any rate, I know it is probably a full court press on getting the new MX version ready but I thought I'd ask, is there any chance the current version of onionshare could be packaged for MX 19?

[labrador_retriever]

I hadn't previously used flatpaks so maybe I screwed it up. I did see the flatpak in MXPI and tried it. Maybe I was too bleary eyed but I thought it worked the first time and hasn't launched since. I saw it at https://docs.onionshare.org/2.3/en/install.html

At any rate, I know it is probably a full court press on getting the new MX version ready but I thought I'd ask, is there any chance the current version of onionshare could be packaged for MX 19?

No, you didn't screw-up. The 2.5 software, once installed from the flatpak, runs just fine. The problem is, if you re-boot, (logout?) and try to run the software again, it refuses to launch. If you try to run it from a terminal, you get the following error message:

$ flatpak run org.onionshare.OnionShare

Gtk-Message: 19:32:28.624: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Qt: Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed
Opening tab in existing OnionShare window (pid 2)

FWIW, canberra-gtk-module is installed, so it's not a missing library that's at fault.

Update: I finally got it working from the command-line, albeit not without a struggle.

To get it working, I had to do the following:

1) Install PIP3: pip3 install --user onionshare-cli
2) The executable is stored in /home/user/.local/bin with the executable named onionshare-cli

3) When I tried executing onionshare-cli, I got an error message to the effect that my version of Tor (0.4.5.x) was outdated. I then installed (0.4.6.8-1~bpo11+2) from the backports and was finally able to bring it up in a terminal.

[fan_of_LTS]

@labrador_retriever, Thanks!

It is still the only flatpak I have. I did see that I added a comment to run flatpak update periodically. Also, bubblewrap is one of flatpaks' dependencies. I use firejail now but it may be worthwhile to switch to bubblewrap to avoid the suid program.