Lantern allows you to give or get access to the internet through other users around the world connected by a peer-to-peer network.
Lantern is written in Java and runs on modern Mac, Windows, and Linux desktop systems.
To run Lantern from source, you need Maven and Java installed. The Lantern developers use Oracle's Java 1.6 SDK, but other SDKs may work.
Then you can run:
$ ./run.bash
That's really a "build and run" script that'll grab dependencies, build and
then run Lantern. There's also a quickRun.bash script that can run it
when already built.
Lantern's binds its HTTP API to a random port for security. You can pass
--api-port=xyz to override this. This is helpful for pointing external
browsers at Lantern for development.
If you want to run Lantern in headless mode, you can pass --disable-ui. That
can be useful if you want to just keep Lantern running all the time on a
server, for example.
If you're running Linux, you may need to run one of the following before you can use the UI, depending on your system:
sudo apt-get install libxtst6
sudo yum install xorg-x11-deprecated-libs
- http://www.getlantern.org
- https://github.com/getlantern/lantern/wiki
- https://github.com/getlantern/lantern/issues
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lantern-devel
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lantern-users-en
You can also access JavaDocs and automatically generated reports on the Lantern codebase at the following: