GNUnet is a peer-to-peer framework designed for secure and decentralized communication. Installing GNUnet on Elementary OS latest version can be done following the steps below:
Visit the GNUnet website at https://gnunet.org/ and download the package file for your Linux distribution. The file should have a .tar.gz extension.
After downloading the package, navigate to the directory where the package is saved and extract it using the following command:
tar -zxvf gnunet-x.y.z.tar.gz
Replace x.y.z with the version number of the package you downloaded.
GNUnet has some dependencies which need to be installed before the package can be compiled. To do this, run the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libtool libgtk-3-dev libunistring-dev libgcrypt20-dev libotr5-dev libgnutls28-dev libltdl-dev libsqlite3-dev m4
After installing dependencies, navigate to the GNUnet package directory and run the configure script using the following command:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-extras
Once the configure script has successfully run, build and install the GNUnet package using the following command:
make install
To verify that GNUnet has been successfully installed, start the GNUnet daemon using the following command:
gnunet-arm
This should display the GNUnet welcome screen in the terminal.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed GNUnet on your Elementary OS latest version.
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