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OnionShare in {{project_name_long}} - Development Notes
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= Notes =
* [[Qubes|{{q_project_name_long}}]] users should consider creating a separate, cloned <code>{{project_name_workstation_template}}-onionshare</code> Template 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. <ref>
https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.onionshare.OnionShare
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== Flatpak OnionShare Installation ==

{{Flatpak Install|package=
onionshare
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== Issue ==
Flatpak installed OnionShare does not listen on all network interfaces but 127.0.0.1 only. It is therefore unreachable from {{project_name_gateway_long}}. This is because file <code>/usr/share/anon-ws-base-files/workstation</code> 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?

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sudo mkdir /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.onionshare.OnionShare/current/active/files/share/anon-ws-base-files
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sudo touch /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.onionshare.OnionShare/current/active/files/share/anon-ws-base-files/workstation
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[https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/4640 flatpak breaks application's Whonix detection #4640]

= Debugging =
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.

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uwtwrapper_verbose=1 onionshare
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View listener.

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netstat -tulpen
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Should show <code>Local Address</code> <code>0.0.0.0</code>, meaning listening on all interfaces which is required in case of {{project_name_short}} so onionshare running inside {{project_name_workstation_long}} can be reached from {{project_name_gateway_short}}. (As opposed to onionshare running on a host without {{project_name_short}} where it should listen on localhost <code>127.0.0.1</code> onl.y

<pre>
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
</pre>

[https://github.com/Whonix/uwt <code>uwt</code>] and [https://github.com/Whonix/bindp <code>bindp</code>] is no longer required since {{project_name_short}} 16 (Debian <code>bullseye</code> based).

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/usr/bin/onionshare.anondist-orig a
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= Footnotes =
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