Is there any alternative software for psiphon? I have tried TOR, but I am not satisfied with its interface. I need something that is easy to use.
Ubuntu – Alternative for psiphon for Ubuntu 14.04
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I personally use and prefer gpodder, however as you have issues with it, it looks like you haven tried miro (listed in Synaptic)
Clear alternatives are joy2key, which is available in the repositories, and rejoystick, which I discuss further below.
1) Fixing compilation problems
However, I believe it is possible to sort out your compilation problems with qjoypad now that you have posted the error messages. It is worth trying to get it compiled as you may find the QT interface much easier to use than the command-line one of joy2key.
Your error message suggests that you need libxtst6 and libxtst-dev, which have been in the repositories for the last 6 Ubuntu releases. So please run
sudo apt-get install libxtst6 libxtst-dev
If you have any further errors you may need to ensure that you have the QT development libraries installed, as they are necessary for building the interface.
sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev
More information is detailed in my answer here, which explains how to compile qjoypad and then set up your joystick.
2) Alternatives
a) joy2key
In the package description, it is noted that
joy2key allows one to choose keyboard events for joystick axes and buttons, so that a joystick or gamepad can be used with an application that doesn't have native joystick support.
Unfortunately, there is no gui (or none that I know of) that yet exists for joy2key, so an essential read is man joy2key and, for example, this and other threads on Ubuntuforums, which go into detail as to how to set it up, although it can be tricky to get it right.
Even though you can save your joy2key configuration in .joy2keyrc; it is difficult to share configurations, as the joystick needs calibrating properly on your machine. However, you may be able to find some layouts for your joystick/gamepad on other forums if you face problems setting your own up.
b) Rejoystick
If you have problems with joy2key, rejoystick would probably be better, as it has a gui (see screenshot) that you use to setup your joypad (see screenshot). You can install the deb from sourceforge. You connect your joypad, launch the settings gui by entering rejoystick in terminal, and then you enter your settings and click ok to save the profile to ~/.rejoystickrc. Then you just run rejoystick -d before you launch your game; enter killall -s SIGKILL rejoystick to clear the current bindings in effect. It does seem to work, but I'm not sure if you can have different profiles like you can with qjoypad.
In short, I highly recommend trying the solutions given further above to solve the compiling problems with qjoypad, as joy2key can be a pain to get set up correctly, although rejoystick is much simpler and may be useful.
Best Answer
There's no need of an alternative if you have an Android device with you. The idea is to forward the traffic from your Linux machine to the Android device running Psiphon. Follow these steps:
ssh -D 8000 -fCqN username@address -p 5555. The details of this command are beautifully explained in this article which I highly recommend you to read. In brief, this command creates a local SOCKS proxy server at 127.0.0.1:8000 which maintains a SSH tunnel that connects your Linux machine and the Android device. Use 'username@address' given by SSHdroid. The default password is admin. We now need to forward the traffic to this server using sytem-wide proxy and the rest will be taken care of by this server.If this works for you, you can probably write a script and automate the entire process. Other direct alternatives to Psiphon are highly limited in either bandwidth or data or both, but so is Psiphon as of today. To get around this, use Psiphon client version 103 for literally unlimited access.