What is GNUnet?
===============
-GNUnet is peer-to-peer framework focusing on security. The first and
-primary application for GNUnet is anonymous file-sharing. GNUnet is
-currently developed by a worldwide group of independent free software
-developers. GNUnet is a GNU package (http://www.gnu.org/).
+GNUnet is peer-to-peer framework providing a network abstractions and
+applications focusing on security and privacy. So far, we have
+created applications for anonymous file-sharing, decentralized naming
+and identity management, decentralized and confidential telephony and
+tunneling IP traffic over GNUnet. GNUnet is currently developed by a
+worldwide group of independent free software developers. GNUnet is a
+GNU package (http://www.gnu.org/).
This is an ALPHA release. There are known and significant bugs as
well as many missing features in this release.
Please note that for many of its dependencies GNUnet requires very
recent versions of the libraries which are often NOT to be found in
-stable distributions in 2011. While using older packages may in some
+stable distributions in 2014. While using older packages may in some
cases on some operating systems may seem to work in some limited
fashion, we are in many cases aware of serious problems with older
packages. Hence please make sure to use the versions listed below.
These are the direct dependencies for running GNUnet:
-- libextractor >= 0.6.1
-- libmicrohttpd >= 0.9.33
+- libmicrohttpd >= 0.9.42
- libgcrypt >= 1.6
-- libgnurl >= 7.34.0 (available from https://gnunet.org/gnurl)
+- libgnurl >= 7.35.0 (available from https://gnunet.org/gnurl)
- libunistring >= 0.9.2
-- gnutls >= 3.2.11
+- gnutls >= 3.2.12
- libidn >= 1.0
-- libglpk >= 4.45
+- libextractor >= 0.6.1 (highly recommended)
- openssl >= 1.0 (binary, used to generate X.509 certificate)
- libltdl >= 2.2 (part of GNU libtool)
- sqlite >= 3.8 (default database, required)
- mysql >= 5.1 (alternative to sqlite)
-- postgres >= 8.3 (alternative to sqlite)
+- postgres >= 9.6 (alternative to sqlite)
- libopus >= 1.0.1 (optional for experimental conversation tool)
- libpulse >= 2.0 (optional for experimental conversation tool)
- libogg >= 1.3.0 (optional for experimental conversation tool)
- python-zbar >= 0.10 (optional for gnunet-qr)
- TeX Live >= 2012 (optional for gnunet-bcd)
+- libglpk >= 4.45 (optional for experimental code)
Recommended autotools for compiling the SVN version are:
- autoconf >= 2.59
http://www.gnu.org/software/libmicrohttpd/). Then you can start the
actual GNUnet compilation and installation process with:
-$ export GNUNET_PREFIX=/usr/local # or other directory of your choice
+$ export GNUNET_PREFIX=/usr/local/lib # or other directory of your choice
# addgroup gnunetdns
-# adduser gnunet gnunet
-# ./configure --prefix=$GNUNET_PREFIX --with-extractor=$LE_PREFIX
+# adduser --system --home "/var/lib/gnunet" --group gnunet --shell /bin/sh
+# ./configure --prefix=$GNUNET_PREFIX/.. --with-extractor=$LE_PREFIX
$ make
# make install
# sudo -u gnunet gnunet-arm -s
permissions and thus won't work.
This will create the users and groups needed for running GNUnet
-securely and then compile and install GNUnet to $GNUNET_PREFIX/bin/,
-$GNUNET_PREFIX/lib/ and $GNUNET_PREFIX/share/ and start the system
+securely and then compile and install GNUnet to $GNUNET_PREFIX/../bin/,
+$GNUNET_PREFIX/ and $GNUNET_PREFIX/../share/ and start the system
with the default configuration. It is strongly recommended that you
add a user "gnunet" to run "gnunet-arm". You can then still run the
end-user applications as another user.
include those libraries in your binary package(s). Similarly, if you
want to use the GNUnet naming system and did NOT run GNUnet's 'make
install' process with SUDO rights, the libraries will be installed to
-"$GNUNET_PREFIX/lib" and you will have to move them to "/lib/"
+"$GNUNET_PREFIX" and you will have to move them to "/lib/"
manually.
Finally, if you are compiling the code from subversion, you have to
GNUnet uses two types of configuration files, one that specifies the
system-wide defaults (typically located in
-$GNUNET_PREFIX/share/gnunet/config.d/) and a second one that overrides
+$GNUNET_PREFIX/../share/gnunet/config.d/) and a second one that overrides
default values with user-specific preferences. The user-specific
configuration file should be located in "~/.config/gnunet.conf" or its
location can be specified by giving the "-c" option to the respective
report bugs can be found in the GNUnet FAQ on the webpage. Submit
patches via E-Mail to gnunet-developers@gnu.org.
-In order to run the unit tests with "make check", you need to
+In order to run the unit tests with by hand (instead of using
+"make check"), you need to
set an environment variable ("GNUNET_PREFIX") to the directory
-where GNUnet is installed (usually, GNUnet will use OS specific
-tricks in order to try to figure out the PREFIX, but since the
-testcase binaries are not installed, that trick does not work
-for them). Also, before running any testcases, you must
+where GNUnet's libraries are installed.
+Also, before running any testcases, you must
complete the installation first. Quick summary:
$ ./configure --prefix=$SOMEWHERE
$ make
$ make install
-$ export GNUNET_PREFIX=$SOMEWHERE
$ make check
Some of the testcases require python >= 2.6 and pexpect to be
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