Tribler

Towards making Bittorrent anonymous and impossible to shut down.

We use our own dedicated Tor-like network for anonymous torrent downloading. We implemented and enhanced the Tor protocol specifications plus merged them with Bittorrent streaming. More info: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki Tribler includes our own Tor-like onion routing network with hidden services based seeding and end-to-end encryption, detailed specs: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki/Anonymous-Downloading-and-Streaming-specifications

The aim of Tribler is giving anonymous access to online (streaming) videos. We are trying to make privacy, strong cryptography and authentication the Internet norm.

Tribler currently offers a Youtube-style service. For instance, Bittorrent-compatible streaming, fast search, thumbnail previews and comments. For the past 9 years we have been building a very robust Peer-to-Peer system. Today Tribler is robust: "the only way to take Tribler down is to take The Internet down" (but a single software bug could end everything).

We make use of submodules, so remember using the --recursive argument when cloning this repo.

Obtaining the latest release of Tribler

Just click here and download the latest package for your OS.

Obtaining support

If you found a bug or have a feature request, please make sure you read contributing and then open an issue. We will have a look at it ASAP.

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome! If you are interested in contributing code or otherwise, please have a look at contributing. Have a look at the issue tracker if you are looking for inspiraton :).

Getting your development environment up and running

Runtime dependencies

Debian/Ubuntu/Mint

sudo apt-get install libav-tools libjs-excanvas libjs-mootools libsodium13 libx11-6 python-apsw python-cherrypy3 python-crypto python-cryptography python-feedparser python-gmpy python-leveldb python-libtorrent python-m2crypto python-netifaces python-pil python-pyasn1 python-requests python-twisted python-wxgtk2.8 python2.7 vlc python-pip
pip install decorator

Installing libsodium13 and python-cryptography on Ubuntu 14.04

While installing libsodium13 and python-cryptography on a clean Ubuntu 14.04 install (possibly other versions as well), the situation can occur where the Ubuntu terminal throws the following error when trying to install the dependencies mentioned earlier in the README.md:

E: Unable to locate package libsodium13
E: Unable to locate package python-cryptography

This means that the required packages are not directly in the available package list of Ubuntu 14.04.

To install the packages, the required files have to be downloaded from their respecive websites.

For libsodium13, download libsodium13_1.0.1-1_<ProcessorType>.deb from http://packages.ubuntu.com/vivid/libsodium13

For python-cryptography, download python-cryptography_0.5.2-1_<ProcessorType>.deb from http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/python-cryptography

Installing the files

Through terminal

After downloading files go to the download folder and install the files through terminal:

For amd64:

cd ./Downloads
dpkg -i libsodium13_1.0.1-1_amd64.deb
dpkg -i python-cryptography_0.5.2-1_amd64.deb

For i386:

cd ./Downloads
dpkg -i libsodium13_1.0.1-1_i386.deb
dpkg -i python-cryptography_0.5.2-1_i386.deb

Through file navigator:

Using the file navigator to go to the download folder and by clicking on the .deb files to have the software installer install the packages.

Now installing the list of dependencies should no longer throw an error.

Windows and OSX

Tribler runs on Windows and OSX, but development is only supported on Linux and OSX. A guide on setting up the development environment for OSX can be found here.

Running Tribler from this repository

Unix

First clone the repository:

git clone --recursive  git@github.com:Tribler/tribler.git

or, if you haven't added your ssh key to your github account:

git clone --recursive  https://github.com/Tribler/tribler.git

Done! Now you can run tribler by executing the tribler.sh script on the root of the repository:

cd tribler
./tribler.sh

Windows

Tribler runs on Windows and OSX, but development is only supported on Linux and OSX.

Packaging Tribler

Debian and derivatives

sudo apt-get install devscripts
cd tribler
Tribler/Main/Build/update_version_from_git.py
debuild -i -us -uc -b

OSX

cd tribler
mkdir vlc
# Copy the ffmpeg binary from its build directory
cp $HOME/Workspace/install/ffmpeg-2.2.4 vlc/ffmpeg
Tribler/Main/Build/update_version_from_git.py
./mac/makedistmac.sh

TODO: Add detailed build dependencies.

Windows

setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
call "c:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0\Bin\SetEnv.Cmd" /Release /x86
SET PATH=%PATH%;c:\windows\system32;c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin
cd tribler
python Tribler/Main/Build/update_version_from_git.py
xcopy c:\build\vlc vlc /E /I
win\makedist.bat

TODO: Add detailed build dependencies.

Other Unixes

We don't have a generic setup.py yet.

So for the time being, the easiest way to package Tribler is to put Tribler/ in /usr/share/tribler/ and debian/bin/tribler in /usr/bin/

A good reference for the dependency list is debian/control

Submodule notes

• As updated submodules are in detached head state, remember to check out a branch before commiting changes on them.
• If you forgot to check out a branch before doing a commit, you should get a warning telling you about it. To get the commit to a branch just check out the branch and do a git cherry-pick of the commit.
• Take care of not accidentally commiting a submodule revision change with git commit -a
• Do not commit a submodule update without running all the tests first and making sure the new code is not breaking Tribler.