PirateBox Laptop

PirateBox can run on a normal computer running Linux, too. The following software is required to run PirateBox locally serving files only:

• lighttpd
• python (installed per default on the most distributions)
• hostapd
• dnsmasq
• iw

 sudo apt-get -y install lighttpd
 sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd stop
 sudo update-rc.d lighttpd remove
 sudo apt-get -y install dnsmasq 
 sudo /etc/init.d/dnsmasq  stop
 sudo update-rc.d dnsmasq remove 
 sudo apt-get -y  install hostapd
 sudo /etc/init.d/hostapd  stop
 sudo update-rc.d hostapd remove 
 sudo apt-get -y install iw

wget  http://downloads.piratebox.de/piratebox-ws_current.tar.gz
tar xzf piratebox-ws_current.tar.gz
cd piratebox
sudo mkdir -p  /opt
sudo cp -rv  piratebox /opt
cd /opt/piratebox

If you don't want to use /opt/piratebox/shared as you default download location,

sudo rm -rfv /opt/piratebox/share
sudo ln -s <target-folder> /opt/piratebox/share

If you want to customize your PirateBox, have a look at conf/piratebox.conf

You may even install the imageboard.

/opt/piratebox/bin/install_piratebox.sh /opt/piratebox/conf/piratebox.conf imageboard

After this point, you may start the PirateBox with:

/opt/piratebox/init.d/piratebox start

If you want to run it on default startup (Debian):

sudo ln -s /opt/piratebox/init.d/piratebox /etc/init.d/piratebox  
sudo update-rc.d piratebox defaults

Depending on your distribution, PirateBox scripts may interfere with the running network-manager. You may need to customize the network-manager configuration or disable the network manager, like wicd

sudo /etc/init.d/wicd stop

After this you have can enable it with

sudo /etc/init.d/piratebox start  

You have to run:

sudo /etc/init.d/piratebox stop
sudo update-rc.d piratebox remove 
sudo rm -v /etc/init.d/piratebox
sudo rm -rf -v /opt/piratebox