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Users guide
Before you start Dark Exchange, you must be sure I2P is running. Some installations will automatically start I2P every time you boot. You can check if I2P is running by navigating to your I2P router console which can be found at: http://localhost:7657/index.jsp
If the console does not open, I2P is likely not running. Each platform starts I2P differently. Check out the I2P home page for information on how to start it on your platform.
To start Dark Exchange, you'll have to run one of two scripts. Which script you use depends on the platform you're running Dark Exchange on.
To start Dark Exchange on Windows, simply double click on the run.bat file in the Dark Exchange directory.
Dark Exchange may take a few seconds to display the login page. Please be patient.
To start Dark Exchange on Mac or Linux, simply run the run.sh file in the Dark Exchange directory.
Dark Exchange may take a few seconds to display the login page. Please be patient.
As soon as Dark Exchange starts, a log in screen appears. If it is the first time you've run Dark Exchange, the user combobox will be empty. To create a new user, simply click on the New user button next to the user combobox. The create user window will then appear.
You can enter any name you want for the user. Then, enter the password twice. There is no way to recover the password, so be sure to remember what you enter. Once you have a user name and password, you can click the ok button to create the new user.
You can now select the user in the user combobox, and enter the password to log in.
The main Dark Exchange window has 4 tabs on it, Home, Search, Identities and Peers. When you first start Dark Exchange, you won't be connected to the network. Therefore, the Home and Search tabs will be useless.
The Peers tab lists all of the destinations of all of the other peers on the network (that you know of). When Dark exchange first starts, you will not have any peers in your list. However, Dark Exchange will start searching for peers as soon as it connects to the I2P network. You'll just have to wait for Dark Exchange to connect before you can do anything. You'll know Dark Exchange is connected to the network when you see more than one peer in your list (the first peer is always you).
If you let Dark Exchange run for about ten minutes and no other peers show up, you'll need to restart Dark Exchange. If no peer ever shows up, Dark Exchange cannot seem to connect to the network. If you know someone on Dark Exchange, you can ask them for their destination and add it manually. Their destination is listed on their Dark Exchange program on the Peers tab in the destination text field. You can add the destination using the Add button above the peer table.