Installation

Installation using DEB packages

tl;dr

$ sudo dpkg -i opensnitch*.deb python3-opensnitch-ui*.deb; sudo apt -f install

Note:

This packages are provided to you in the aim of being useful and ease the installation. They have some no-no's (like calling pip on post install scripts), and apart from that don't expect them to be bug free or lintian errors/warnings free.

You can opt out to not install extra UI packages with pip, but the compatibility with the system python3-grpcio packages is not ensured.

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The reason for installing some dependencies using pip is that they are not always packaged in all distributions and all versions (python3-grpcio on Ubuntu is only available from >= 19.x). Moreover, Ubuntu 20.04 python3-grpcio (version 1.16.1) differs from official 1.16.x that causes some working problems.

If you still don't want to install those pip packages, you'll need to install the following:

$ sudo apt install python3-grpcio python3-protobuf python3-slugify

• On Ubuntu you may need to add universe repositories.
• If you install them using a graphical installer and fails, launch a terminal and type the above commands. See the common errors for more information.

You can download them from the release section.

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These packages have been (briefly) tested on:

• Daemon (v1.0.0-rc5):

  • RedHat Enterprise >= 7.0
  • Debian >= 8
  • LinuxMint >= 18
  • Ubuntu >= 16 (works also on 14.04, but it lacks upstart service file. dpkg must be at least .1.17.x)

• UI (v1.0.0-rc4):

  • Debian >= 9
  • Ubuntu >= 16.x
  • LinuxMint >= 18 (If you have troubles installing it on LinuxMint, see: #16 or apt-get install g++ python3-dev python3-wheel python3-slugify)
  • MX Linux: you need to install: apt-get install python3-dev python3-wheel

• Window Managers:

  • Cinnamon
  • KDE
  • Gnome-Shell (no systray icon? see this for information)
  • Xfce

Note: You can install the UI from the sources, using pip3, and it'll work in some more distributions. Not in Fedora <= 29 due to lack of PyQt5 libraries.

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Uninstalling opensnitch

deb packages:

• apt remove opensnitch python3-opensnitch-ui

UI dependencies

• pip3 uninstall grpcio-tools unicode_slugify pyinotify