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robinpaulson / SimpleRT

Simple Reverse Tethering utility for Android
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Please explain how to install / use this app #12

Closed staddle closed 7 years ago

staddle commented 7 years ago

Im relativly new to linux and I really need an easy explanation of how I install this program and how I use it.

I have a Huawei p8lite, of which the WiFi isnt working, so I thought, I could use my computers connection on it to install all necessary apps. Because, it isnt rooted, I only can use this one app in the playstore which doesnt work for me, or simpleRT.

How do I install it? Do I have to download it? where can I execute? I already have the apk from fdroid on my phone, but I dont know how to go on.

Hope somebody with more knowledge than me can explain me. Thanks

vvviperrr commented 7 years ago

Im relativly new to linux

skype me (vvviperrr00). i will explain in details

breversa commented 7 years ago

Same here.

The usage part in the readme is not very helpful : "Usage:

run console util as root
connect your android device

"

What console util ?

staddle commented 7 years ago

First you download all depencies. Then you git this folder. Afterwards go into the simple-rt-cli folder and just run 'make'. Then 'sudo ./simplert'.

This should work.

breversa commented 7 years ago

Thank for your fast reply ! I'm actually not familiar with using git and compiling though, and I thought of using SimpleRT on a computer I may not be able to do that anyway. Do you plan any desktop release ?

staddle commented 7 years ago

Sorry Im not the developer :) He said its the last thing on his todo list to make a windows release. I also had very low knowledge with linux. You can i.e. use a live distribution, that you can boot from a DVD and run the commands there. If you need I can give you an exact step by step instruction what you need to run to make it work.

staddle commented 7 years ago

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev sudo apt-get install pkg-config sudo apt-get install git git clone https://github.com/vvviperrr/SimpleRT cd SimpleRT/simple-rt-cli make sudo ./simplert

==> connect device

breversa commented 7 years ago

Great ! Thank you. I think it's worth adding to the wiki/readme in order to help other people too. :-)

staddle commented 7 years ago

Thats what I told https://github.com/vvviperrr too, but he said it would be pretty clear for those who know how to build apps in linux.

breversa commented 7 years ago

Too much (?) information is better than too little information.

People who know wouldn't care, but people who don't know would appreciate. :-)

doronbehar commented 7 years ago

Hello @vvviperrr, I would have contacted you on Skype to ask this question but I don't run nor use such non free software so I think it's best we'll talk here.

I use Lineage OS 14.1 nightly and Arch Linux. I'm confused with the usage of the app and the command ./simple-rt. I can't make it to actually work and to enable me to load pages with my firefox browser. I have managed to make it to show the 🔑 sign at the top of the screen but I can't actually load pages (when mobile data and WiFi are off of course) in my firefox browser.

These are the questions that popped me:

  1. Should I enable tethering in my android device after/before/at all while/after/before running the command ./simple-rt
  2. If I do enable tethering while the device is connected with USB then what interface should I specify when I run the command ./simple-rt -i ??. Should I choose the interface of the tethering (named enp0s20u1 on my arch Linux machine)? Or the Ethernet interface enp0s25?
  3. In general, what exactly is the order of operations that must be taken in order to setup tethering with ./simple-rt?