=== The Pandora. P2P Social Network Contents 1) overview 2) system requirements 3) installation in Ubuntu 4) installation in Windows 5) installation in Debian 6) manual installation or update 7) join as developer 8) getting help 1. OVERVIEW Pandora is a free peer-to-peer (P2P) social network application. It affords functions of instant messenger, audio and video chat, trading platform, commercial system, payment system, distributed development system, file exchange and vote system. Pandora has its own binary protocol, uses a cryptography and a web of trust. Pandora is not yet another "geek thing". It is designed for ordinary people, has a graphical user interface (GUI) and works "out of the box". The concept of Pandora is described in SysMagazine article: http://sysmagazine.com/posts/164149/ See the user manual with pictures in wiki to quick start: https://github.com/Novator/Pandora/wiki/Install-and-first-run 2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Mandatory: - Linux or Windows OS (another also possible) - SQLite database (MySQL, Postgree, Firebird or another) - Ruby script engine - GTK2 graphical library - OpenSSL crypto library Optional: - GStreamer media library 3. INSTALLATION IN UBUNTU Do commands in terminal: sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:pandora-net/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y pandora-net 4. INSTALLATION IN WINDOWS Download an installation and run it with administrator: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pandora-net/files/pandora_setup.exe/download 5. INSTALLATION IN DEBIAN Download a package and install it with root: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pandora-net/files/pandora-net_0.2-1ubuntu_all.deb/download dpkg -i pandora-net_0.2-1ubuntu_all.deb 6. MANUAL INSTALLATION OR UPDATE 6.1. Download the archive and unpack it: https://github.com/Novator/Pandora/archive/master.zip 6.2. Install packets: ruby, ruby-sqlite3, ruby-gtk2, ruby-gstreamer, openssl, gstreamer0.10-x, gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg, gstreamer0.10-plugins-good, gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 6.3. Set executable rights: chmod +x ./pandora.sh 6.4. Copy shortcut to desktop with root and edit paths inside: cp ./view/pandora.desktop /usr/share/applications/ nano /usr/share/applications/pandora.desktop Pandora can update itself by user click to button on status bar. 7. JOIN AS DEVELOPER 7.1. See current technical tasks at file: https://github.com/Novator/Pandora/blob/master/doc/todo.ru.txt 7.2. Registrate on GitHub: https://github.com/ For example, your login is "YourNick". 7.3. Push "Fork" button on top of Pandora github page: https://github.com/Novator/Pandora/fork 7.4. Install git in Ubuntu: sudo apt-get -y install git in Windows download and install: http://msysgit.github.io/ 7.5. Download Pandora to your hard disk via git command: git clone --depth=3 https://github.com/YourNick/Pandora.git Warning: change "YourNick" to your login! 7.6. Correct a code with any text editor, for example Geany: http://www.geany.org/Download/Releases 7.7. Update your github repository: git commit -a -m "your comment" && git push (see more useful git commands in the file "git.sh") 7.8. Push "Pull Request" at your Pandora github page: https://github.com/YourNick/Pandora/pull/new/master If your contribution will be rated as useful it will be added to next release. When you show yourself like active developer you will be added as collaborator. 8. GETTING HELP Help to Pandora project like a programmer, translator, journalist or donator: http://robux.biz/pandora.html Communicate together in facebook or vkontakte: https://www.facebook.com/p2pandora https://vk.com/pandoranet Ask author for help: http://facebook.com/robux http://vk.com/robux robux@mail.ru Michael Galyuk