<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Thank you so much for publishing an article on installing ooni-probe it’s great stuff!</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">I am moving this thread over to ooni-dev as ooni-operators is actually meant for just important communications to operators of ooniprobe instances.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">What Vasilis says is mostly correct, just a couple of minor corrections.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">On July 1, 2017 at 3:14:24 PM, Vasilis (<a href="mailto:andz@torproject.org">andz@torproject.org</a>) wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div><div></div><div>Hi Snehan,
<br>
<br>Snehan Kekre:
<br>> Hello excellent ooni people,
<br>>
<br>> I've written a blog post (https://snehankekre.github.io/anti-censorCHIP)
<br>> about installing ooniprobe on a $9 computer called CHIP that runs a flavor
<br>> of Debian.
<br>
<br>Thank you for your good words and publishing a blog post about
<br>installing ooniprobe on CHIP. <br></div></div></span></blockquote><div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span><div><div>> I would appreciate any feedback, suggestions, or comments. I'll<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> use them to make necessary changes to reflect accurate delivery. I've used<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> some images and a lot of lines from the ooni website.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>The 4th step in the install section of the blog post<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>(https://snehankekre.github.io/anti-censorCHIP#installing-ooniprobe-on-chip)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>is not needed since Step 3 will get all the available dependencies.<br>However given that are a number of bugs<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>(https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/issues?q=label%3Adebian+is%3Aopen)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>in the Debian ooniprobe packages, I will suggest you instead to install<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>ooniprobe with pip and use the following install guide:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe#unix-systems-with-pip<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div></div></span></blockquote></div><p><br></p><p>As Vasilis points out you don’t actually need to install those extra dependencies via pip and are already part of the package installation, however you should NOT install ooniprobe via pip as it’s not the best way to install packages that will run as root.</p><p>The issues with the debian package are being actively worked on and I have some sample debian packages if you would like to try them out (<a href="https://github.com/hellais/ooniprobe-fpm#debian">https://github.com/hellais/ooniprobe-fpm#debian</a>) and as soon as they are ready the canonical torproject debian package will be updated and all the outstading issues should be resolved.</p><p>In the Step 5. you don’t actually need to run oonideckgen, but you can directly find the location of your decks by running ooniprobe --info ,it should be in /var/lib/ooni/decks.</p><br><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div><div>Usually ooniprobe is more useful when it performs regular (scheduled)
<br>network measurements, I will suggest you to add the following steps to
<br>the install guide:
<br>
<br>1. Configure ooniprobe
<br>(https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe#configuring-ooniprobe),
<br>either via the GUI (setup wizard) or from the shell (ooniprobe initialize)
<br>
<br>2. Add ooniprobe system service
<br>(https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe#run-ooniprobe-as-a-service-systemd)
<br>
<br></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes this is indeed the recommended way of running it, in theory that should already be setup for you by using the debian package (but due to the debian package bugs vasilis pointed out is currently not happening).</div><div><br></div><br><div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span><div><div>> Is there a standard format to provide credit to ooni devs?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Everything published on the website is licensed under a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (CC BY 3.0).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div></div></span></blockquote></div><p><br></p><p>~ Arturo</p></body></html>