What is Honeygain?
Honeygain is an application that pays you for sharing your bandwidth. You just have to install it on your pc or mobile phone, and it will work in background. Honeygain is available on Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS and Android, but it only provides content delivery feature on Windows. With content delivery feature on, you earn extra with Honeygain application.
Though you can run Honeygain on Linux based systems ob docker, but it lacks content delivery feature. Here is how we can install it on Linux and enjoy it's windows specific feature.
To do so, We will need WINE or Bottles application installed on Linux. How to install Bottles is explained in this article here in this blog. We will start with WINE in this article.
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How to install WINE on Linux
To install WINE, type the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt install wine
How to install Honeygain with content delivery
Once, WINE is installed, type the following in terminal to install Winetricks:
sudo apt install winetricks
Now, we will install q4wine:
sudo apt install q4wine
Download wine mono 7.4.0 msi from here, wine gecko 2.47.3 32bit and 64bit msi from here and open q4wine from the application menu or type in terminal:
q4wine
Run the downloaded wine mono msi and gecko msi from q4wine.
After installing all three files, download the Honeygain application and install it with the help of q4wine.
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