RetroShare alternatives and similar software solutions
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Rocket.Chat
The communications platform that puts data protection first. -
Rallly
Rallly is an open-source scheduling and collaboration tool designed to make organizing events and meetings easier. -
Node-Chat
:speech_balloon: Chat application built with NodeJS and Material Design -
Niltalk
Instant, disposable, single-binary web based live chat server. Go + VueJS. -
Mumblecop
Stream audio from youtube and soundcloud, simulate dice rolls, or write your own commands with a simple plugin format.
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RetroShare
RetroShare is a decentralized, private and secure commmunication and sharing platform. RetroShare provides filesharing, chat, messages, forums and channels.
Build Status
Platform | Build Status |
---|---|
GNU/Linux, MacOS, (via travis-ci) | |
Windows, MSys2 (via appveyor) |
Compilation on Windows
Follow this file : WindowsMSys2_InstallGuide.md
Compilation on MacOSX
Follow this file : MacOS_X_InstallGuide
Compilation for Android
Follow this file : README-Android
Compilation on Linux
Install package dependencies:
- Debian/Ubuntu
bash sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev libupnp-dev qt4-dev-tools \ libqt4-dev libssl-dev libxss-dev libgnome-keyring-dev libbz2-dev \ libqt4-opengl-dev libqtmultimediakit1 qtmobility-dev libsqlcipher-dev \ libspeex-dev libspeexdsp-dev libxslt1-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev \ libopencv-dev tcl8.5 libmicrohttpd-dev rapidjson-dev
- openSUSE
bash sudo zypper install gcc-c++ libqt4-devel libgnome-keyring-devel \ glib2-devel speex-devel libssh-devel protobuf-devel libcurl-devel \ libxml2-devel libxslt-devel sqlcipher-devel libmicrohttpd-devel \ opencv-devel speexdsp-devel libupnp-devel libavcodec-devel rapidjson
- Arch Linux
bash pacman -S base-devel libgnome-keyring libmicrohttpd libupnp libxslt \ libxss opencv qt4 speex speexdsp sqlcipher rapidjson
- Debian/Ubuntu
Checkout the source code
mkdir ~/retroshare cd ~/retroshare git clone https://github.com/RetroShare/RetroShare.git trunk
Compile
cd trunk qmake CONFIG+=debug make
Install
sudo make install
The executables produced will be:
/usr/bin/retroshare
/usr/bin/retroshare-nogui
- Uninstall:
bash sudo make uninstall
Compile only retroshare-nogui
If you want to run RetroShare on a server and don’t need the gui and plugins, you can run the following commands to only compile/install the nogui version:
qmake
make retroshare-nogui
sudo make retroshare-nogui-install_subtargets
For packagers
Packagers can use PREFIX and LIB_DIR to customize the installation paths:
qmake PREFIX=/usr LIB_DIR=/usr/lib64 "CONFIG-=debug" "CONFIG+=release"
make
make INSTALL_ROOT=${PKGDIR} install
If libsqlcipher is not available as a package
You need to place sqlcipher so that the hierarchy is:
retroshare
|
+--- trunk
|
+--- lib
|
+---- sqlcipher
mkdir lib
cd lib
git clone git://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher.git
cd sqlcipher
./configure --enable-tempstore=yes CFLAGS="-DSQLITE_HAS_CODEC" LDFLAGS="-lcrypto"
make
cd ..
Using retroshare-nogui & webUI
The webUI needs to be enabled as a parameter option in retroshare-nogui:
./retroshare-nogui --webinterface 9090 --docroot /usr/share/retroshare/webui/
The webUI is only accessible on localhost:9090. It is advised to keep it that way so that your RS cannot be controlled using an untrusted connection.
To access your web UI from a distance, just open a SSH tunnel on it:
distant_machine:~/ > ssh rs_host -L 9090:localhost:9090 -N
"rs_host" is the machine running retroshare-nogui. Then on the distant machine, access your webUI on
http://localhost:9090
That also works with a retroshare GUI of course.
Compile and run tests
qmake CONFIG+=tests
make
tests/unittests/unittests