How To Install onionshare on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install onionshare in Fedora 36. onionshare is Securely and anonymously share files of any size

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install onionshare on Fedora 36.

What is `onionshare`

OnionShare lets you securely and anonymously share files of any size. It works by starting a web server, making it accessible as a Tor hidden service, and generating an unguessable URL to access and download files. It doesn’t require setting up a server on the internet somewhere or using a third party file sharing service. You host files on your own computer and use a Tor hidden service to make it temporarily accessible over the internet. The other user just needs to use Tor Browser to download a file from you.

We can use yum or dnf to install onionshare on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install onionshare.

Install onionshare on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install onionshare using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install onionshare

Install onionshare on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install onionshare using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install onionshare

How To Uninstall onionshare on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the onionshare package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove onionshare

onionshare Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/onionshare
/usr/bin/onionshare-gui
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare-1.3-py3.10.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare/__pycache__/common.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare/__pycache__/common.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare/__pycache__/onion.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare/__pycache__/onion.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare/__pycache__/onionshare.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare/__pycache__/onionshare.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare/__pycache__/settings.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare/__pycache__/settings.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare/__pycache__/socks.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare/__pycache__/socks.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare/__pycache__/strings.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare/__pycache__/strings.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare/__pycache__/web.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare/__pycache__/web.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare/common.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare/onion.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare/onionshare.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare/settings.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare/socks.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare/strings.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare/web.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/__pycache__/alert.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/__pycache__/alert.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/__pycache__/downloads.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/__pycache__/downloads.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/__pycache__/file_selection.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/__pycache__/file_selection.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/__pycache__/onionshare_gui.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/__pycache__/onionshare_gui.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/__pycache__/server_status.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/__pycache__/server_status.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/__pycache__/settings_dialog.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/__pycache__/settings_dialog.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/__pycache__/tor_connection_dialog.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/__pycache__/tor_connection_dialog.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/__pycache__/update_checker.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/__pycache__/update_checker.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/alert.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/downloads.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/file_selection.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/onionshare_gui.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/server_status.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/settings_dialog.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/tor_connection_dialog.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/onionshare_gui/update_checker.py
/usr/share/appdata/onionshare.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/onionshare.desktop
/usr/share/doc/onionshare
/usr/share/doc/onionshare/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/onionshare/README.md
/usr/share/nautilus-python/extensions/onionshare-nautilus.py
/usr/share/onionshare/html
/usr/share/onionshare/html/404.html
/usr/share/onionshare/html/denied.html
/usr/share/onionshare/html/index.html
/usr/share/onionshare/images
/usr/share/onionshare/images/download_completed.png
/usr/share/onionshare/images/download_completed_none.png
/usr/share/onionshare/images/download_in_progress.png
/usr/share/onionshare/images/download_in_progress_none.png
/usr/share/onionshare/images/favicon.ico
/usr/share/onionshare/images/file_delete.png
/usr/share/onionshare/images/info.png
/usr/share/onionshare/images/logo.png
/usr/share/onionshare/images/logo_grayscale.png
/usr/share/onionshare/images/logo_transparent.png
/usr/share/onionshare/images/server_started.png
/usr/share/onionshare/images/server_stopped.png
/usr/share/onionshare/images/server_working.png
/usr/share/onionshare/images/settings.png
/usr/share/onionshare/images/web_file.png
/usr/share/onionshare/images/web_folder.png
/usr/share/onionshare/license.txt
/usr/share/onionshare/locale
/usr/share/onionshare/locale/cs.json
/usr/share/onionshare/locale/da.json
/usr/share/onionshare/locale/de.json
/usr/share/onionshare/locale/en.json
/usr/share/onionshare/locale/eo.json
/usr/share/onionshare/locale/es.json
/usr/share/onionshare/locale/fi.json
/usr/share/onionshare/locale/fr.json
/usr/share/onionshare/locale/it.json
/usr/share/onionshare/locale/nl.json
/usr/share/onionshare/locale/no.json
/usr/share/onionshare/locale/pt.json
/usr/share/onionshare/locale/ru.json
/usr/share/onionshare/locale/tr.json
/usr/share/onionshare/torrc_template
/usr/share/onionshare/torrc_template-meek_lite_amazon
/usr/share/onionshare/torrc_template-meek_lite_azure
/usr/share/onionshare/torrc_template-obfs4
/usr/share/onionshare/torrc_template-windows
/usr/share/onionshare/version.txt
/usr/share/onionshare/wordlist.txt
/usr/share/pixmaps/onionshare80.xpm

References

onionshare website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install onionshare on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).