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I thought I was pretty tech savvy until trying to get i2p to run in OSX. I've somehow managed to open the exe file and now have the i2p folder installed.

(If you have trouble locating how to access your file under terminal just drag/drop into terminal and it's location autofills for you.. sweet!)

I'm sorry if this has been answered kizillion times but a search come up lacking for me. Right.. the rest of it makes zero sense. How can I now setup and run i2p in osx. I don't understand the terminal commands so please be gentle with me. ie tell me what I need to type?

Thanks for any help offered. Love the concept and the difficulty getting it to run makes me more determined to use it! Confused

Joined: 26 Aug 2006 Posts: 7

To install it on macos, you have to do this on Terminal (on the directory which contain i2pinstall.Exe of course) : 'java -jar i2pinstall.exe'

Then if you just want to launch it, you have to open Terminal application, go to the directory where i2p is installed (typing 'cd ' and drag and drop the directory of i2p from the finder do the job Wink

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Then type 'sh i2prouter start'. This will launch all the necessary process. To find if it works, go to your favorite browser and type the following URL : 'http://localhost:7657'...

If you want to launch it at boot, you can use the Lingon.app great application but it need some configurations... Wink

it permits creating services ... If you want we can do this lately Smile

Wow that seemed so simple. I wonder why there is no definitive OSX guide to this procedure? I spent days getting to this point

Moderators consider making a sticky this post? Idea

Thank you thankyou thanks difficult!

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Joined: 09 Apr 2006 Posts: 5

This idea of using Lingon to create a startup item of some kind for i2p seems great, but I don't know how. Ok... I realize that this isn't a support forum for the Lingon app, but it would be very helpful to know if I should choose to create an item under either "My Agents", "User Agents", "User Daemons", "System Agents" or "System Daemons".

I understand that there is a difference from OSX version to OSX version as to how a startup item should be created. What would be the correct approach for OSX 10.4.7?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Joined: 26 Aug 2006 Posts: 7

In fact, Lingon app is only a gui to create a configuration file (plist) used by launchd (process launch a boot time). I think it's the best way to use with Tiger because i've seen that launchd will replace cron /etc/rc and all others process that permit to create services in futur. I don't know about others versions of macos because i'm really new to mac Wink

Your question about where you have to make your item is really easy to anwser. You just have to know when i2p must be launched. I think "User Daemons" is a good choice because it will be launched at boot even no users are logged in.

Let's go Wink

On Lingon, you have to just create a new item under "Users Daemons" and fill :
- Label : what you want
- ProgramArguments : "FULL_PATH_TO_I2P_DIRECTORY/i2prouter" on first line and "start" on the second one
- RunAtLoad : select it

Clic on "Save & Load" and i2p will start Smile

It will automaticaly start at boot time too.

for learning more on launchd you can go here : http://developer.apple.com/macosx/launchd.html

Hope that help.....

Joined: 09 Apr 2006 Posts: 5

Great! Wouldn't have understood any of that if it hadn't been for your help! Thank you!
(And sorry about taking forever to say that. I actually forgot about having posted that message here. Lol)

Joined: 09 Apr 2006 Posts: 5

Thank you to everyone who has helped out! I have still given up on i2p since I am unable to get the configurations of ports and tunnels and whatnot to work. Even if I follow step-by-step tutorials. It's just way out of my league this here. I don't know how many times I have left this and then picked it up again later only to end up being equally confused. I'll take the jail time for peer to peer downloading indstead. It is easier. Very Happy

But thank you all the same. Hopefully this thread will benefit someone else with a bigger brain than me.

cmd to paste
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do shell script "sudo /Applications/i2p/i2prouter start" password "YOURPSSWD" with administrator privileges

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replace YOURPSSWD by your root password, paste this cmd in AppleScript Editor save as app... it's work like an application and you can configure to open it while the session is openning. System Prefrences > Accounts > Login Items

Give to your "i2p startup" a nice icon :
here mine : http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/i2p.php

that's all
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