Retroshare will automatically create a hidden service for you and configure itself to use it (as soon as Tor is installed in the system – retroshare only looks for a Tor executable). Using Tor has many advantages: Connections through firewalls are extremely reliable and fast since Tor is very hard to filter. RetroShare offers many ways to offer files to a single friend, to all your friends or even to friends of friends. An important concept for this are RetroShare links. These links can, among other things, point to any file in the RetroShare network. They can be distributed everywhere in RetroShare, i.e. Various chats, forums, messages, channels.
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Authors: RetroShare
Usage
RetroShare is available as an AppImage which means 'one app = one file', which you can download and run on your Linux system while you don't need a package manager and nothing gets changed in your system. Awesome!
AppImages are single-file applications that run on most Linux distributions. Download an application, make it executable, and run! No need to install. No system libraries or system preferences are altered.Most AppImages run on recent versions of Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and other common desktop distributions.
Running RetroShare on Linux without installation
Unlike other applications, AppImages do not need to be installed before they can be used. However, they need to be marked as executable before they can be run. This is a Linux security feature.Behold! AppImages are usually not verified by others. Follow these instructions only if you trust the developer of the software. Use at your own risk!
Gta san andreas mods ps3. Download the RetroShare AppImage and make it executable using your file manager or by entering the following commands in a terminal:
Then double-click the AppImage in the file manager to open it.
Sandboxing RetroShare
If you want to restrict what RetroShare can do on your system, you can run the AppImage in a sandbox like Firejail. This is entirely optional and currently needs to be configured by the user.
Updating RetroShare
If you would like to update to a new version, simply download the new RetroShare AppImage.
Integrating AppImages into the system
If you would like to have the executable bit set automatically, and would like to see RetroShare and other AppImages integrated into the system (menus, icons, file type associations, etc.), then you may want to check the optional appimaged daemon.
Note for application authors
Thanks for distributing RetroShare in the AppImage format for all common Linux distributions. Adobe photoshop torrent piratebay mac. Great! Here are some ideas on how to make it even better.
Pro Tips for further enhancing the RetroShare AppImage
Please consider to add update information to the RetroShare AppImage and ship a .zsync file so that it can be updated using AppImageUpdate. Free music for apple mac. Tools like appimagetool and linuxdeployqt can do this for you easily.
Improve this entry by shipping an AppStream metainfo file inside the AppImage in the usr/share/metainfo directory. We have an online tool that makes it easy to make one.
Retroshare
The screenshot for RetroShare has been automatically taken during a fully automated test. You can specify the URL to a nicer one by shipping an AppStream metainfo file.
If you would like to see a donation link for the application here, please include one in the AppStream data.
Retroshare Chat Server
create a network of computers, and provides various distributed services on top
of it. Retroshare is fully decentralized, and designed to provide security to
its users. This version is a prototype in alpha state not sutiable for general
use, expect to experience bugs and be kind to report them.
Retroshare Vs
- License:GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later
Packages
Although APK downloads are available below to give you the choice, you should be aware that by installing that way you will not receive update notifications and it's a less secure way to download. We recommend that you install the F-Droid client and use that.
Retroshare Download
This version requires Android 4.1 or newer.
It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.