RetroShare

Do you have a backup/export of your profile?

Over the last days I’ve setup RS on 3 systems:

Linux Mint
Flatpak: Crashes on start
Appimage: Instable Tor connection

Windows 11
Installed x64: Takes ages to connect to Tor
Portable x64: Works OKish

MacOS (Tahoe, Apple Silicon/ARM)
There is no native Apple Silicon/ARM version, so the Apple Rosetta is needed
On startup RS throws an error: Tor is missing
Providing the path to Tor as parameter solves that
Fastest Tor connection so far

I wanted to run a Linux system 24/7, but can’t make it work.

Anyone running RS on Linux (which Distro) with a stable Tor connection?

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I wanted to run a Linux system 24/7, but can’t make it work.

Anyone running RS on Linux (which Distro) with a stable Tor connection?

I have been running it on a fedora GUI docker container (webtop:fedora) on my linux server and basically never have stability issues. It has been running for a year and I dont remember having any crashing issues like I did with a bad package on arch. My uptime is only impacted by me restarting my server and forgetting to relaunch retroshare (Which happens once every few months so sorry to anyone who tries to download stuff from me when I forget and go offline for a few weeks at a time)
I just added the fedora 39 retroshare repo and installed that package (even though I'm running fedora 41)

I used to have the webui set up to compile from source and run but it didnt work well enough at the time and I havent revisited that yet but it was pretty stable as well.

Over the last days I’ve setup RS on 3 systems:

Linux Mint
Flatpak: Crashes on start
Appimage: Instable Tor connection

Windows 11
Installed x64: Takes ages to connect to Tor
Portable x64: Works OKish

MacOS (Tahoe, Apple Silicon/ARM)
There is no native Apple Silicon/ARM version, so the Apple Rosetta is needed
On startup RS throws an error: Tor is missing
Providing the path to Tor as parameter solves that
Fastest Tor connection so far

I wanted to run a Linux system 24/7, but can’t make it work.

Anyone running RS on Linux (which Distro) with a stable Tor connection?

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The most recent flatpak build does not run on Linux Mint 21.3, you need to use the next most recent one:

Code:

flatpak remote-info --log flathub cc.retroshare.retroshare-gui
        ID: cc.retroshare.retroshare-gui
       Ref: app/cc.retroshare.retroshare-gui/x86_64/stable
      Arch: x86_64
    Branch: stable
Collection: org.flathub.Stable
  Download: 42.0 MB
Installed: 106.5 MB
   Runtime: org.kde.Platform/x86_64/5.15-24.08
       Sdk: org.kde.Sdk/x86_64/5.15-24.08

    Commit: c5e737736ad7512684d6021339a86645bb68dc039220f81347a7d94859d3981f
    Parent: 5c794a3ef9ecb0af58633f263bc27113821bd64348eb5c5d50b420cf140d6c5c
   Subject: Merge pull request #32 from razzeee/keywords-1764025359383 (8c09690f1821)
      Date: 2025-12-06 16:27:18 +0000
   History:

    Commit: 5c794a3ef9ecb0af58633f263bc27113821bd64348eb5c5d50b420cf140d6c5c
   Subject: Merge pull request #31 from JohannesKleine/update_metadata (6200ae24dd5f)
      Date: 2025-08-22 18:01:00 +0000

    Commit: 0cfcecf3aa7288db43ae43b09bad2715467306ebe357874773b5fd481d92e9bb
   Subject: Merge pull request #29 from JohannesKleine/v0.6.7.2-autologin (e263cc3d6b3f)
      Date: 2025-06-20 09:18:06 +0000

    Commit: b3de9c5d21a105319fa25e9044bfba5884c08e1ebdb49eeeae7f18ba39710256
   Subject: Use stabler miniupnpc instead of libupnp (05a0557c)
      Date: 2022-05-13 06:28:26 +0000

Do not use the 2025-12-06 build, use the 2025-08-22 one. There are lots of instructions around the web on how to downgrade a flatpak package and then pin it against future upgrades.

Maybe a future build will work, I don't know. Or maybe I should upgrade Mint 21 to 22.

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Maybe a future build will work, I don't know. Or maybe I should upgrade Mint 21 to 22.

Thanks, I'll try that

. . .
Maybe a future build will work, I don't know. Or maybe I should upgrade Mint 21 to 22.

Thanks, I'll try that

Update:
The downgrade of the flatpak did the job (I'm on Mint 22.3).
Thanks again.

. . .
Maybe a future build will work, I don't know. Or maybe I should upgrade Mint 21 to 22.

Thanks, I'll try that

Update:
The downgrade of the flatpak did the job (I'm on Mint 22.3).
Thanks again.

Glad that worked for you.

Do we need to use Tor, or is the Retroshare app alone enough?

Also, does retroshare show my IP by default? What if I wish to hide it from everyone?

[Like Ra]

Do we need to use Tor, or is the Retroshare app alone enough?

Retroshare with Tor only

does retroshare show my IP by default?

Yes

What if I wish to hide it from everyone?

Use RetroShare with Tor 😉

My Antivirus is saying that the links for steps 3 and 4 aren't safe. I take it we use Tor for those links?