Create RetroShare ID on Raspberry Pi

[HowTo] Create RetroShare ID on Raspberry Pi



SSH with X-Forwarding into your Raspberry Pi.
ssh -X pi@ipaddress

Download RetroShare Binarys for Raspberry Pi

RetroShare binarys for Raspberry Pi are available at [HowTo]compile-retroshare-on-raspberry-pi or download it from PiShare

Place RetroShare and retroshare-nogui in your  home directory
go to your home directory

pi@retropi ~ $ cd ~/
pi@retropi ~ $ ./RetroShare
RetroShare:: Successfully Installedthe SIGPIPE Block
Hashed main executable: a7308a6c6283892a25f5af05986ee8b6a835ab89
retroShare::basedir() -> $HOME = /home/pi
Creating Root Retroshare Config Directories
pubring file "/home/pi/.retroshare/pgp/retroshare_public_keyring.gpg" not found. Creating a void keyring.
Pubring read successfully.
secring file "/home/pi/.retroshare/pgp/retroshare_secret_keyring.gpg" not found. Creating a void keyring.
Secring read successfully.
  private trust database not found. No trust info loaded.
getAvailableAccounts()
No Existing User
getRetroshareDataDirectory() Linux: /usr/share/RetroShareData Directory not Found: /usr/share/RetroShare
Finding PGPUsers

Choose a nickname.
Enter a good, long, unique, new and secure password. 

Select a Location Name.
Put a meaningful location for example: home, laptop, server, raspberrypi, etc ...
This field will be used to differentiate different installations with the same identity (PGP key)

Your RetroShare is now available and ready to use.
You can run the GUI directly on LXDE, with VNC or with X-Forwarding.

Done, RetroShare is now working on your Raspberry Pi

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HowTo compile RetroShare on Raspberry Pi

This HowTo is for native compiling on Raspberry Pi.

There are other faster ways to compile Raspberry Pi with architectural root or cross compiling tools or chroot. This tutorial is for compiling on Raspberry Pi directly. Takes some time but works well. 

If you do not want to compile yourself, i upload sometimes binarys Gui+noGui to https://sourceforge.net/projects/pishare/

Tutorial should work for Debian Wheezy 7.0 in general!

First install your Raspbian (Debian ARMHF) on your Raspberry Pi and do your settings, static IP or whatever your network needs. 

SSH into your Raspberry Pi

ssh pi@IPaddress

Upgrade your system

sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y

Install dependencies to build RetroShare regarding http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/UnixCompile

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install g++ libgnome-keyring-dev libqt4-dev libxss-dev \ 

             libssl-dev libupnp-dev subversion libbz2-dev \

             libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler cmake \

             qt4-qmake libqt4-dev-bin libbz2-dev

Go to your home directory

cd ~/

create build directory

mkdir build

enter the build dir 

cd build

create a directory lib

mkdir lib

enter the directory lib

cd lib

download the libssh-0.5.4 source tarball

wget https://red.libssh.org/attachments/download/41/libssh-0.5.4.tar.gz

extract the tarball

tar zxvf libssh-0.5.4.tar.gz

enter the created room

cd libssh-0.5.4

create another build directory

mkdir build

enter the directory build

cd build

run command cmake

cmake -DWITH_STATIC_LIB=ON ..

run command make

make

libssh is built now, good.

go to your home directory

clone RetroShare Trunk from subversion Code repository

cd ~/build && svn co svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/retroshare/code/trunk retroshare

If you do not have enough ram (256MB) you need to create a bigger SWAP Space.

command "free -h" shows your ram and Swap space. 

pi@retropi ~ $ free -h
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          232M        90M       141M         0B        11M        55M
-/+ buffers/cache:        23M       208M
Swap:          99M         0B        99M

cd ~/

create a file with 512MB

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1M count=512

create a swapfile out of the file.

sudo mkswap swapfile

start swaping 

sudo swapon swapfile

the swap space is now increased by 512MB.

pi@retropi ~ $ free -h
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          232M       220M        11M         0B       3,2M       190M
-/+ buffers/cache:        26M       205M
Swap:         611M         0B       611M

after a restart the swap is not active anymore and the swapfile unneeded

retroshare-gui takes a lot of time on this small CPU. 

i suggest using screen http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/

apt-get install screen

start screen 

screen

enter the message away

you can run this command in a single step and it will compile libbitdht, openpgpsdk, libretroshare, rsctrl, retroshare-nogui and retroshare-gui

cd ~/build/retroshare/libbitdht/src && qmake && make clean && make -j 4 && \

cd ~/build/retroshare/openpgpsdk/src && qmake && make clean && make -j 4 && \

cd ~/build/retroshare/libretroshare/src && qmake && make clean && make -j 4 && \

cd ~/build/retroshare/rsctrl/src && make && \

cd ~/build/retroshare/retroshare-nogui/src && qmake && make clean && make -j 4 && \

cd ~/build/retroshare/retroshare-gui/src && qmake && make clean && make -j 4

and detach from this screen session with "CTRL+A D"

you can now grab a cup of coffee, watch http://cristgaming.com/pirate.swf and http://www.nyan.cat/pirate.php 

after 1-2 hours start your screen session with "screen -r +TAB" 

and look, if it has finished yet. 

screen -r +TAB

if not finished yet, wait and do more NYANing. 

after finishing this process. 

cd ~/

cd ~/build/retroshare/retroshare-nogui/src/

cp retroshare-nogui ~/

cd ~/build/retroshare/retroshare-gui/src/

cp RetroShare ~/

your executeable binarys are now in your home directory

cd ~/

exit your SSH session

start SSH with X-Forwarding into your Raspberry Pi  to start the GUI

for X-Forwarding use a Linux PC or a Windows PC with xming

cd ~/

Start RetroShare and create a new ID or set up a second location for your Main ID

./RetroShare 

Your Gui should now be running