IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) is a peer-to-peer file-sharing network that aims to make the web faster, safer, and more resilient. Go IPFS is the implementation of IPFS in the Go programming language. This tutorial will guide you through the steps needed to install Go IPFS on Linux Mint.
Go IPFS is written in the Go programming language, so the first step is to ensure that Go is installed on your system. If you already have Go installed, you can skip to the next step.
To install Go on Linux Mint, execute the following commands in your terminal:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install golang
This will download and install Go on your system.
Once Go is installed, you can proceed to download Go IPFS from the official GitHub repository. To download Go IPFS, execute the following commands in your terminal:
wget https://dist.ipfs.io/go-ipfs/v0.8.0/go-ipfs_v0.8.0_linux-amd64.tar.gz
This will download the latest version of Go IPFS.
After the download is complete, extract the files from the archive using the following command:
tar -xvf go-ipfs_v0.8.0_linux-amd64.tar.gz
This will extract the files to a directory named go-ipfs.
To install Go IPFS on your system, navigate to the go-ipfs directory that was created in the previous step and execute the following command:
sudo bash install.sh
This will install Go IPFS on your system.
To verify that Go IPFS has been installed correctly, execute the following command in your terminal:
ipfs version
This command should output the version number of the installed Go IPFS package.
In this tutorial, we have walked through the steps to install Go IPFS on Linux Mint. You can now begin to use Go IPFS to share and access files through the decentralized network.
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