<p>Welcome to the Tahoe project, a secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant filesystem. All of the source code is available under a Free Software, Open Source licence.</p>
<p>This filesystem is encrypted and spread over multiple peers in such a way that it remains available even when some of the peers are unavailable, malfunctioning, or malicious.</p>
<p>See the web site for information, news, and discussion: <ahref="http://allmydata.org">http://allmydata.org</a></p>
<p>This is the default procedure to install from source. It has been verified to work on Windows (but see also "install-win32.html"), Cygwin (see "install-cygwin.html"), Mac, Linux, and Solaris. It's likely to work on other platforms. For more details and for alternative installation procedures, please see <ahref="install-details.html">install-details.html</a>.
<li><ahref="http://zope.org/Products/ZopeInterface">zope.interface</a> -- <em>not</em> the entire Zope package, merely the much smaller zope.interface component</li>
<p>Run <cite>make</cite> to build Tahoe and some included libraries and install the <cite>tahoe</cite> executable into a subdirectory of the current directory named <cite>bin</cite>.</p>
<p>Run <cite>bin/tahoe --version</cite> to verify that the executable tool runs and prints out the right version number (the "allmydata" version number is the version number of the Tahoe package).</p>
<p>Now you have the Tahoe source code installed and are ready to use it to form a decentralized filesystem. See <ahref="running.html">running.html</a> for instructions.</p>