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Notes[edit]
- Qubes-Whonix™ users should consider creating a separate, cloned
whonix-workstation-17-onionshareTemplate before installing OnionShare/flatpak. - OnionShare from the Debian stable repository is suitable for most users. Flatpak can be utilized for later OnionShare versions; v2.4 is packaged at the time of writing. [1]
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Install onionshare via flatpak.
1. Select your platform.
A : Non-Qubes-Whonix
===2. Add flathub repository.
Follow the instructions to 
Enable Flathub Repository
.
3. Install the flatpak onionshare package.
flatpak install flathub onionshare
4. Done.
The procedure of installing onionshare is complete.
5. Upgrades notice.
Note: this procedure will not keep the software up-to-date. How to update installation installed by flatpak is also documented on the Operating System Software and Updates wiki page.
B : Qubes-Whonix Template
===whonix-workstation-17)2. Add flathub repository.
Follow the instructions to
Enable Flathub Repository
.
3. Install the flatpak onionshare package.
http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8082 https_proxy=$http_proxy flatpak install flathub onionshare
4. Done.
The procedure of installing onionshare is complete.
5. Upgrades notice.
Note: this procedure will not keep the software up-to-date. How to update installation installed by flatpak is also documented on the Operating System Software and Updates wiki page.
C : Qubes-Whonix App Qube
anon-whonix)2. Add flathub repository.
Follow the instructions to
Enable Flathub Repository
.
3. Install the flatpak onionshare package.
flatpak --user install flathub onionshare
4. Done.
The procedure of installing onionshare is complete.
5. Upgrades notice.
Note: this procedure will not keep the software up-to-date. How to update installation installed by flatpak is also documented on the Operating System Software and Updates wiki page.
Issue[edit]
Flatpak installed OnionShare does not listen on all network interfaces but 127.0.0.1 only. It is therefore unreachable from Whonix-Gateway™. This is because file /usr/share/anon-ws-base-files/workstation does not exist inside the Flatpak folder.
related:
https://github.com/onionshare/onionshare/blob/develop/cli/onionshare_cli/web/web.py#L360_L364
Does the following help?
sudo mkdir /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.onionshare.OnionShare/current/active/files/share/anon-ws-base-files
sudo touch /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.onionshare.OnionShare/current/active/files/share/anon-ws-base-files/workstation
flatpak breaks application's Whonix detection #4640
Debugging[edit]
To see what's happening "under the hood". When using Debian package installed OnionShare version only. This does not work for Flatpak installed OnionShare version.
uwtwrapper_verbose=1 onionshare
View listener.
netstat -tulpen
Should show Local Address 0.0.0.0, meaning listening on all interfaces which is required in case of Whonix so onionshare running inside Whonix-Workstation™ can be reached from Whonix-Gateway. (As opposed to onionshare running on a host without Whonix where it should listen on localhost 127.0.0.1 onl.y
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State User Inode PID/Program name [...] tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:17605 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1000 30959 4009/python3
uwt and bindp is no longer required since Whonix 16 (Debian bullseye based).
/usr/bin/onionshare.anondist-orig a
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