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MuWire - Easy Anonymous File-Sharing
MuWire is an easy to use file-sharing program which offers anonymity using I2P technology. It works on any platform Java works on, including Windows,MacOS,Linux.
It is inspired by the LimeWire Gnutella client and developped by a former LimeWire developer.
The current stable release - 0.6.7 is avaiable for download at https://muwire.com. You can find technical documentation in the doc folder. Also check out the Wiki for various documentation.
Building
You need JDK 9 or newer. After installing that and setting up the appropriate paths, just type
./gradlew clean assemble
If you want to run the unit tests, type
./gradlew clean build
If you want to build binary bundles that do not depend on Java or I2P, see the muwire-pkg project
Running the GUI
Type
./gradlew gui:run
If you have an I2P router running on the same machine that is all you need to do. If you use a custom I2CP host and port, create a file i2p.properties
and put i2cp.tcp.host=<host>
and i2cp.tcp.port=<port>
in there. On Windows that file should go into %HOME%\AppData\Roaming\MuWire
, on Mac into $HOME/Library/Application Support/MuWire
and on Linux $HOME/.MuWire
Default I2CP port: 7654
Running the CLI
Look inside cli-lanterna/build/distributions
. Untar/unzip one of the shadow
files and then run the jar contained inside by typing java -jar cli-lanterna-x.y.z-all.jar
in a terminal. The CLI will ask you about the router host and port on startup, no need to edit any files. However, the CLI does not have an options window yet, so if you need to change any options you will need to edit the configuration files. The CLI options are documented here cli options
The CLI is under active development and doesn't have all the features of the GUI.
Running the Web UI / Plugin
There is a Web-based UI under development. It is intended to be run as a plugin to the Java I2P router. To build it, do the following:
- Check out the Java I2P code from here I2P Github
- Build it using
ant clean pkg
- Create a directory under the MuWire source tree called
i2pjars
and copy all jars from the i2ppkg-temp/lib
directory there. - Un-comment the
webui
andplug
projects in MuWire'ssettings.gradle
. (By default those are commented out) - Edit
gradle.properties
to change the signer. You need to sign your plugin for the I2P router to load it. More information TODO - Run
./gradlew assemble
- If all goes well, there will be a file
plug/build/MuWire.su3
. Install that file from the I2P router console.
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