Our requirements

• Available in the Debian repository
• Easy to install, setup and maintain

Gobby is a client for the infinoted dedicated server for the infinote protocol
Install the dedicated server. See Dedicated-Server which has a list with plugins

• If you run your own server set it up first. See below
• Install gobby via aptitude
• A settings window appears
  • Enter a username
  • Choose a color
  • Unselect “Allow remote users to edit local documents”
  • Click on the “Close” button
• File | Connect to server
  • Enter the address of the server: example.com:portnumber
  • Enter the password
  • You should be connected now

• Become root
• mkdir -p /var/data/gobby
• chown -R root:users /var/data/
• chmod -R g+w /var/data/
• Install gobby via aptitude
• Install infinoted via aptitude
• vi /etc/xdg/infinoted.conf (remarks are in between ( ) )
  • key-file=/home/ck/infinoted-key.pem
  • certificate-file=/home/ck/infinoted-cert.pem
  • security-policy=require-tls
  • log-file=/var/log/gobby
  • listen-address=IPv4 adress (like 192.168.1.1 or an IPv6 address (this is the default) if you want that)
  • port=6523 (This is the default)
  • root-directory=/var/data/gobby
  • plugins=note-text (Default, should always be included)
  • password=somehash (Needed by clients before being allowed to connect to the server)
• Save /etc/xdg/infinoted.conf
• infinoted-0.7 --create-key --create-certificate --key-file key.pem --certificate-file cert.pem (Running this without the --key-file and --certificate-file options does not generate the Diffie-Hellman parameters) Output

[Mon 18 May 2020 10:02:21 PM UTC]    INFO: Generating 4096 bit RSA private key...
[Mon 18 May 2020 10:02:22 PM UTC]    INFO: Generating self-signed certificate...
[Mon 18 May 2020 10:02:22 PM UTC]    INFO: Loaded plugin "note-text" from "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/infinoted-0.7/plugins/libinfinoted-plugin-note-text.so"
[Mon 18 May 2020 10:02:22 PM UTC]    INFO: Generating 2048 bit Diffie-Hellman parameters...
[Mon 18 May 2020 10:02:22 PM UTC]    INFO: IPv4 Server running on port 6523

• CTRL-C
• infinoted-0.7 to start the server without key and certificate generation
• Users will have to accept the self-signed certificate the first time they connect to the server

If an option is used in the configuration file /etc/xdg/infinoted.conf then omit the double dash -- and add an = sign between the option and the value (no spaces)
The options --config-file and --help can not be used in the configuration file
Configuration options which are used on the command line override the values read from the configuration files. On the commandline a space or an = can be placed between the option and the value

• The libinfinity-0.7-doc package is of no use (changelogs)

This is caused by a wrong entry in /etc/xdg/infinoted.conf . Running

infinoted-0.7 --create-key --create-certificate

or

infinoted-0.7 --create-key --create-certificate -k key.pem  -c cert.pem

resulted in

Error reading configuration file "/etc/xdg/infinoted.conf": Key file contains line “certificate-chain” which is not a key-value pair, group, or comment

Solution: Remove the line “certificate-chain” from /etc/xdg/infinoted.conf. It does not belong inthere

Here, with Address, the portnumber is ment

infinoted-0.7 --create-key --create-certificate results in

[Mon 18 May 2020 09:57:03 PM UTC]    INFO: Generating 4096 bit RSA private key...
[Mon 18 May 2020 09:57:05 PM UTC]    INFO: Generating self-signed certificate...
[Mon 18 May 2020 09:57:05 PM UTC]    INFO: Loaded plugin "note-text" from "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/infinoted-0.7/plugins/libinfinoted-plugin-note-text.so"
[Mon 18 May 2020 09:57:05 PM UTC]   ERROR: Address already in use

Solution: Set an other port in /etc/xdg/infinoted.conf : port=someportnumber (not 6523)

There is a bug in Debian which prevents infinoted from autostarting with the /etc/systemd/system/infinoted.service file
Errors found in the process

systemctl enable infinoted.service
Failed to enable unit: File /etc/systemd/system/infinoted.service already exists.

Maybe has todo with the bug

systemctl enable infinoted.service
Failed to enable unit: Unit file infinoted.service does not exist.

The file infinoted.service does not exist. Create it. An example can be found here

systemctl status infinoted
Unit infinoted.service could not be found.

The file infinoted.service does not exist. Create it. An example can be found here

systemctl start infinoted.service
Warning: The unit file, source configuration file or drop-ins of infinoted.service changed on disk. Run 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload units.

Run: systemctl daemon-reload
With journalctl we found

mei 20 19:56:44 hostname systemd[1]: Started collaborative text editor service.
mei 20 19:56:44 hostname systemd[16437]: infinoted.service: Failed to determine user credentials: No such process
mei 20 19:56:44 hostname systemd[16437]: infinoted.service: Failed at step USER spawning /usr/bin/infinoted: No such process
mei 20 19:56:44 hostname systemd[1]: infinoted.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=217/USER
mei 20 19:56:44 hostname systemd[1]: infinoted.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Remove all symlinks to the unit files:

systemctl disable infinoted.service
Removed /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/infinoted.service.

Reload the configuration file of the unit infinoted.service

systemctl daemon-reload infinoted.service

Show all parameters of infinoted.service:

systemctl show infinoted.service

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