Onionshare do not start

[soniabu]

Hello everyone.
My OS is Xeniapup 7.5 64.
I also installed Tor browser 8.0.3 with Ffx 60.3 Oesr.
The installation of Onionshare via ppm - relise 0.8.1-1 from Ubuntu-xenial-multiverse repository - seems to have gone well...
In fact, it finds the Onionshare icon in the Network section.
However, when I click on it, the application does not start and no message appears.
Does anyone have any suggestions about this?
Thanks
Sonia

[ITSMERSH]

Type onionshare (or whatever the name of its binary is) into a terminal and post its output here.

[soniabu]

thx for replay,
wait wait
this is new command
root# cd Downloads
root# onionshare BICI.jpg
Connecting to Tor control port to set up hidden service on port 38795.
Staring ephemeral Tor hidden service and awaiting publication
....
...
give me the url to share (FANTASTIC!)

Thank you I solved with terminal commands.
you were kind ITSMERSH, thanks again.
Sonia

[ITSMERSH]

In /usr/share/applications the .desktop file of onionshare should be located. So, probably /usr/share/applications/onionshare.desktop. If you found it, open it in a text editor to edit.

Have a look at the Exec= entry and -if necessary- just change it to onionshare so, Exec=onionshare (or something similar that way) and save the file back.

Refresh the menu or type fixmenus into the terminal.

Should work from menu now as well...

[soniabu]

In /usr/share/applications the .desktop file of onionshare should be located. So, probably /usr/share/applications/onionshare.desktop. If you found it, open it in a text editor to edit.

Have a look at the Exec= entry and -if necessary- just change it to onionshare so, Exec=onionshare (or something similar that way) and save the file back.

Refresh the menu or type fixmenus into the terminal.

Should work from menu now as well...

Thx a lot.
sonia

[soniabu]

In /usr/share/applications the .desktop file of onionshare should be located. So, probably /usr/share/applications/onionshare.desktop. If you found it, open it in a text editor to edit.

Have a look at the Exec= entry and -if necessary- just change it to onionshare so, Exec=onionshare (or something similar that way) and save the file back.

Refresh the menu or type fixmenus into the terminal.

Should work from menu now as well...

Now I use Bionicpup64 and OnionShare 0.9.2-1 from PPM.
I tried to open it (onionshare.desktop) as text to modify Exec; but it doesn't open as text, so I can't edit it; while other applications such as 'notecase.desktop' or ' mtpaint.desktop 'also cannot be opened as text; however they can be launched.
In conclusion Onionshare works well from the terminal; but I can't start it from Menu.
Also I can't update it to release 2.2 since when I boot
from terminal the procedure to install it: 'sudo add-apt-repository ppa: micahflee / ppa' as indicated in Onionshare.org installation, it signals the following error to which I cannot overcome:


I already had openssl installed

[Semme]

You can't rt-clk and "open as text?" Really?

[Desktop Entry]
Name=OnionShare
Comment=Share a file securely and anonymously over Tor
Exec=/usr/bin/onionshare-gui
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/onionshare80.xpm
Categories=Network;
Keywords=tor;anonymity;privacy;onion service;file sharing;file hosting;

sudo add-apt-repository is Ubu, NOT Pup.

Grab what you need manually >> https://launchpad.net/~micahflee/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

[soniabu]

You can't rt-clk and "open as text?" Really?

[Desktop Entry]
Name=OnionShare
Comment=Share a file securely and anonymously over Tor
Exec=/usr/bin/onionshare-gui
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/onionshare80.xpm
Categories=Network;
Keywords=tor;anonymity;privacy;onion service;file sharing;file hosting;

sudo add-apt-repository is Ubu, NOT Pup.

Grab what you need manually >> https://launchpad.net/~micahflee/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

thanks for your answer.
you don't believe me:
https://funkyimg.com/i/35qpy.gif
now I try to understand how to do it manually.
I understood that Puppy is not Ubuntu; however I didn't know how to update it and I also tried it.
thanks

[Semme]

You mean like "rt-clk" its desktop file?

[soniabu]

You mean like "rt-clk" its desktop file?

I understand right - click :
pls watch here: https://funkyimg.com/i/35qpy.gif

[Semme]

geany /usr/share/applications/onionshare.desktop

No?

I wonder if one of OnionShare's deps, namely "mime-support" overwrote any of Bionics default mime_type files?

/etc/mime.types
/usr/lib/mime/packages/mime-support
/usr/sbin/update-mime

[soniabu]

geany /usr/share/applications/onionshare.desktop

No?

I wonder if one of OnionShare's deps, namely "mime-support" overwrote any of Bionics default mime_type files?

/etc/mime.types
/usr/lib/mime/packages/mime-support
/usr/sbin/update-mime

here is geany /usr/share/applications/onionshare.desktop works fine:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=OnionShare
Comment=Share a file securely and anonymously over Tor
Exec=/usr/bin/onionshare-gui
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/onionshare80.xpm
Categories=Network
Keywords=tor;anonymity;privacy;onion service;file sharing;file hosting;

[Semme]

OK. So that works but rt-clk doesn't, correct?

So were you able to update OnionShare?

Did you need the TOR launcher as well?

FunkyImage takes FOREVER to load!

[soniabu]

no I was unable to update onionshare.
rt-clic dosent work
Tor works well.

[Semme]

Do you mean the binary pkg from launchpad didn't overwrite and update your previous version?

[soniabu]

I don't know how to update Onionshare.
that is, I don't know the command to get around it, if there is a linux command

[soniabu]

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:micahflee/ppa
sudo apt-get update
dosent work in my system

[Semme]

This is from the link I left you:

https://launchpad.net/~micahflee/+archi ... -1_all.deb

[soniabu]

yes i find it
thx
i try wait a minute

[soniabu]

no dosent work
now a terminal command
onionshare filename
give:
No module name "flask_httpauth"
N.B.
however Ononshare is now realesa 2.2