How To Install onionshare on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install onionshare
on Debian 11.
What is onionshare
onionshare is:
OnionShare lets you securely and anonymously share a file of any size with someone. It works by starting a web server, making it accessible as a Tor hidden service, and generating an unguessable URL to access and download the file. It doesn’t require setting up a server on the Internet somewhere or using a third party filesharing service. You host the file 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 the Tor Browser and to enter the URL to download the file from you.
There are three methods to install onionshare
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install onionshare Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install onionshare
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install onionshare
Install onionshare Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install onionshare
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install onionshare
Install onionshare Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install onionshare
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install onionshare
How To Uninstall onionshare on Debian 11
To uninstall only the onionshare
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove onionshare
Uninstall onionshare And Its Dependencies
To uninstall onionshare
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove onionshare
Remove onionshare Configurations and Data
To remove onionshare
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge onionshare
Remove onionshare configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove onionshare
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge onionshare
Dependencies
onionshare have the following dependencies:
- obfs4proxy
- python3-pycryptodome
- python3-flask
- python3-flask-httpauth
- python3-pyqt5
- python3-socks
- python3-stem
- tor
- python3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install onionshare
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.