Note: Currently in development. Feel free to test, and please report bugs.

An asynchronous, transparently-encrypting remailer for the LEAP platform, using BigCouch/CouchDB and PGP/GnuPG, written in Twisted Python.

========================= tl;dr

================================= Virtualenv is somewhat equivalent to fakeroot for python packages, and -- due to being packaged with copies of pip and python -- can be used to bootstrap its own install process, allowing pip and python to be used with sudo.

To install without using sudo, a bootstrap script to handle the setup process is provided. It does the following:

1. Download, over SSL, the latest tarballs for virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper from pypi.
2. Unpack the tarballs, use the system python interpreter to call the virtualenv.py script to setup a bootstrap virtual environment.
3. Use the pip installed in the bootstrap virtualenv to install virtualenvwrapper in the bootstrap virtualenv.
4. Obtain a copy of leap_mx with git clone.
5. Use mkvirtualenv included in the virtualenvwrapper inside the bootstrap virtualenv to install a project virtualenv for leap_mx.

To use the bootstrap script, do:

$ wget -O bootstrap https://raw.github.com/isislovecruft/leap_mx/fix/no-suid-for-virtualenv/bootstrap
$ ./bootstrap
$ workon leap_mx

To install python, virtualenv, and get started, do:

$ sudo apt-get install python2.7 python-dev python-virtualenv virtualenvwrapper
$ git clone https://github.com/isislovecruft/leap_mx.git leap_mx
$ export WORKON_LEAPMX=${PWD}/leap_mx
$ source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh
$ mkvirtualenv -a $WORKON_LEAPMX -r ${WORKON_LEAPMX}/pkg/mx-requirements.pip \
      --no-site-packages --setuptools --unzip-setuptools leap_mx

To get started quickly, without virtualenv, do:

$ sudo apt-get install python git
$ git clone https://github.com/isislovecruft/leap_mx.git
# pip install -r ./leap_mx/pkg/mx-requirements.pip

Although, it is advised to install inside a python virtualenv.

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To get running, clone this repo, and (assuming you've already set up your virtualenv and obtained all the requirements) do:

$ ./start_mx.py --help