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Installing the WASTE client in Ubuntu

What is WASTE?

To quote from the WASTE project website:

WASTE is an anonymous, secure, and encryped collaboration tool which allows users to both share ideas through the chat interface and share data through the download system. WASTE is RSA secured, and has been hearalded as the most secure P2P connection protocol currently in development.

WASTE allows you to chat to your friends or colleagues as well as share files with them using an encrypted decentralised network. Unfortunately the WASTE project has seen slow and sporadic development however the good news is that there is a Linux compatible client.

Packages

In order to use WASTE on Ubuntu you need the following packages from the repositories:

libwxgtk2.6-0 libwxgtk2.6-dev python-wxgtk2.6 wx-common

Once you have installed these packages you need to download the Waste 1.5 Beta 4 version Linux Widget source-code from SourceForge.

Configure, Compile and Install

Extract the contents of the archive then navigate to the waste directory and issue this command:

./configure

Hopefully you should not have any errors so then you can proceed with:

make

Again under the assumption that no errors occur you can finally install using:

sudo make install

Using WASTE

Once installed you can launch WASTE using the command:

waste

The first thing you will need to do is set up a user account and generate a private and public key. Then you would share your public key with your friends at which point you can connect to each other using your IP numbers. The nice thing about WASTE is that since it is decentralised you only need to connect to one member of your network and through them you will receive the IP numbers and public keys of all other members of your network.

The WASTE main window:

The WASTE preferences window:

The WASTE browser window:

The Linux WASTE client is not as developed as the Windows version, therefore you may notice that the preferences cover only the basic features, in order to edit the advanced settings you will need to edit the following file:

home/your-user-name/.waste/Default.pro

The following settings, while not obligatory can lead to problems if they are not included (note: close WASTE before you edit the file):

Slot opened by host
recv_maxdl_host=1

Upload speed in Kbyts/s:
ul_limit=30

Time (in minutes) between each scan (scans the contents of the shared folders):
refreshint=300

To accept direct connections (0 = no, 1=yes):
directxfers_conn=1

To try to establish a direct connection (0 = no, 1=yes):
directxfers=1

Associate your nick with the transfer (0 = no, 1=yes):
nickonxfers=1

Route Traffic (0 = no, 1=yes):
route=1

Port of to listen on (default 1337) TCP (0 = no, 1=yes):
port=1337
listen=1

Credits:

Most of this information was translated from here.