onionshare/desktop

OnionShare Desktop

Building OnionShare

Install platform-specific dependencies

Linux

If you're using Linux, install tor and obfs4proxy from either the official Debian repository, or from your package manager.

macOS

Windows

Prepare the code

Get the source code and change to the desktop folder:

git clone https://github.com/micahflee/onionshare.git
cd onionshare/desktop

OnionShare uses Briefcase.

Install Briefcase dependencies by following these instructions.

Now create and/or activate a virtual environment.

python3 -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate

While your virtual environment is active, install briefcase from pip.

pip install briefcase

Run OnionShare from the source tree like this:

briefcase dev -d

Running tests

Install these packages inside your virtual environment:

pip install pytest pytest-briefcase pytest-faulthandler pytest-qt

Then run the tests:

./tests/run.sh

Making a release