A very simple necrobump for this pointlessly ancient thread:

This is easy if you have a tablet that can run linux properly.

It consists of exactly two steps:
-Install Debian XFCE
-Install Kovri
Done:



I went back to upgrade the Sabayon on the tablet
and discovered Sabayon no longer updates properly.
Sadly, I discovered the Huawei GSM module is dead also.

Time to replace Sabayon with something a little perkier,
but along the lines of what I was considering earlier:

A tablet tethered to internet access by a stupidphone,
which would compartmentalize the two very thorny issues of

• a truly open-community/dev supported real linux portable/tablet
  (not JollaWare, CanonicalWare, GoogleWare, SamsungWare)
  
• and having comms that do not cripple getting the first point
  completely correct.
  It is the business of getting a modem into the tablet that
  is the dealbreaker for having a real linux tablet.
  As far as that goes, you could simply plug something in,
  but then power and telefony begin to complicate matters.
  An Android phone with all services and applications
  disabled/removed/erased aside from
  simple text (SMS) + voicecalls and internet might be a good tether.

Okay,

1. - Install Debian XFCE
First step: download a vanilla Debian 64bit installer image
and boot it on a USB eradicating everything on the SSD
into a brand new squeaky clean Debian.
Use XFCE desktop to keep it simple.

{yes, I know - you can use Ubuntu/Mint/Arch/Gentoo/whatever
but to keep this baseline simple I am referring to Grampa's OS.
Yes you should probably throw everything over the fence
such as LibreOffice and any networky crapware,
or maybe not - it could be useful if you like it.
Personal choice: but slimming the load of daemons
and unused hardware initialization and all other bloat advised.
You may notice I chose to install konqueror+konversation,
but there is a method to that madness, different story}

2. - "Install" Kovri
After installing and housework like network connections
and updates and desktop eyecandy or whatever,
go get the latest kovri build on this page.
(Get the Ubuntu 64bit not the Debian ARM version!)

download to somewhere in your home directory
and run the install.sh (read the instructions in the zip file)
and you will discover a /bin directory inside your /home/user.
just copy those files to /usr/local/bin (no 'safe' to use bin in home).

I forget now, but I think that is about all aside from going into /home/user/.kovri/config/kovri.conf
and designate a port (as noted in the instructions)

What seems to work out of the box is the browser
(after you set up a localhost proxy as described in the instructions)
and IRC services
(after you set up a localhost proxy as described in the instructions)
Which is why I installed konversation and konqueror:
I am temporary using FF for clearnet
and konqueror for the I2P to compartmentalize browsing,
and konversation was just a very quick irc fix, if a bit blurry.

cheers,
I know not much more at this time,
but intend to see how deep the rabbit hole is
having i2p on a phoned-in internet.
I tried freenet (similar idea) before with CanonicalWare
but without multitasking it is just a rotting fish in an air duct.

What is the objective of all this ?
Replace Facebook with a distributed i2p network (privacy-centric)
on a mobile platform I can build and buy
then send to relatives to keep in touch
so they will quit pestering me to use Facebook.
Everything else I have seen has deep implementation issues:
(Diaspora/Mastodon/Retroshare/Scuttlebutt)