TahoeLAFS (Least Authority File System) is a free and open-source cloud storage system developed by Tahoe-LAFS.org. In this tutorial, we will guide you step-by-step on how to install TahoeLAFS on Alpine Linux latest version.
Before we proceed with the installation, ensure that you have the following prerequisites:
To install TahoeLAFS on Alpine Linux, you will need to install some packages first. Open the terminal and run the following commands:
apk update
apk add python3 openssl-dev libffi-dev gcc musl-dev libxml2-dev libxslt-dev
This command will update the package list and install the required packages.
After installing the required packages, let's begin with the installation of TahoeLAFS. Run the following command in the terminal:
pip3 install tahoe-lafs
This command will install the TahoeLAFS package on your system.
Now that you have installed TahoeLAFS, you can run it by using the tahoe command in the terminal. Before running TahoeLAFS, you need to create a tahoe.cfg file with the following commands:
mkdir ~/.tahoe
tahoe create-node -n ~/.tahoe/node
This command will create a tahoe.cfg file in the ~/.tahoe directory, which is necessary to run the TahoeLAFS.
After creating the tahoe.cfg file, you can start the TahoeLAFS node with the following command:
tahoe start ~/.tahoe/node
This command will start the TahoeLAFS node, and it will output the web user interface URL.
That's it! You have successfully installed and run TahoeLAFS on Alpine Linux latest version. Now you are ready to use TahoeLAFS, which is a secure and decentralized cloud storage system.
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