How to install SheepDog on Elementary OS

SheepDog is a distributed storage system that offers high availability and scalability. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to install SheepDog on Elementary OS.

Prerequisites

Before we get started, you'll need to have the following:

• A computer running Elementary OS Latest
• A user account with sudo privileges

Step 1: Install Dependencies

The first thing we need to do is install some dependencies. Open up a terminal window and type the following command:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev libaio-dev libboost-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-system-dev libprotobuf-c-dev libyaml-cpp-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev protobuf-c-compiler

Step 2: Download and Install SheepDog

To download and install SheepDog, follow these steps:

1. Open up a terminal window.
2. Download the latest SheepDog release from the official website:

wget https://github.com/sheepdog/sheepdog/archive/refs/tags/v1.1.1.tar.gz

3. Extract the downloaded archive:

tar -xvzf v1.1.1.tar.gz

4. Change into the extracted directory:

cd sheepdog-1.1.1/

5. Compile and install SheepDog:

./configure
make
sudo make install

Step 3: Start SheepDog

To start SheepDog, run the following command:

sudo dog daemon -c /opt/sheepdog/sheep.conf

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we showed you how to install SheepDog on Elementary OS Latest. Once installed, you can use SheepDog as a distributed storage solution for your data.

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