Welcome to the Tahoe project, a secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant filesystem.
See the about page for more information.
This procedure has been verified to work on Windows, Cygwin, Mac, Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD. It's likely to work on other platforms. If you have trouble with this install process, please write to the tahoe-dev mailing list, where friendly hackers will help you out.
Prior to installing Tahoe ensure that the following are installed:
Download a recent tarball file from:
http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/tarballs
Unpack the tarball and cd into the top-level directory.
Run make to build and to install the tahoe executable into a subdirectory of the current directory named bin.
Run make test to verify that it built correctly and passes all tests.
Run bin/tahoe --version 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).
Now you have the Tahoe source code installed and are ready to use it to form a decentralized filesystem. The tahoe executable in the bin directory can configure and launch your Tahoe node. See running.html for instructions on how to do that.
If you prefer to install Tahoe in .deb packages, please see the DownloadDebianPackages page on the wiki instead of following the instructions on this page.