onionshare/cli/README.md

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Installing OnionShare CLI

First, make sure you have tor and python3 installed. In Linux, install it through your package manager. In macOS, install it with Homebrew: brew install tor. Second, OnionShare is written in python, and you can install the command line version use python's package manager pip.

Requirements

Debian/Ubuntu (APT):

sudo apt-get install tor python3-pip

Arch (Pacman):

sudo pacman -S tor python-pip

CentOS, Red Hat, and Fedora (Yum):

sudo yum install tor python3 python3-wheel

macOS (Homebrew):

brew install tor python
sudo easy_install pip

Main

Installation

Install OnionShare CLI:

pip install --user onionshare-cli

Set path

When you install programs with pip and use the --user flag, it installs them into ~/.local/bin, which isn't in your path by default. To add ~/.local/bin to your path automatically for the next time you reopen the terminal or source your shell configuration file.

Fist, discover what is your shell:

echo $SHELL

Then apply the path to your shell file:

bash:

echo "PATH=\$PATH:~/.local/bin" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

zsh:

echo "PATH=\$PATH:~/.local/bin" >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc

Usage

Then run it with:

onionshare-cli --help

Developing OnionShare CLI

You must have python3 and poetry installed.

Install dependencies with poetry:

poetry install

To run from the source tree:

poetry run onionshare-cli

To run tests:

poetry run pytest -v ./tests

Build a wheel package

poetry build

This will create dist/onionshare_cli-$VERSION-py3-none-any.whl.