Welcome to the Tahoe project, a secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant filesystem.
See the about page for more information.
This is the default procedure to install from source. It has been verified to work on Windows, Cygwin, Mac, Linux, and Solaris. It's likely to work on other platforms. If you encounter problems following this procedure, or for more details such as platform-specific instructions, please see install-details.html.
Prior to installing Tahoe the following must be installed:
Tarballs of the source code are available at:
http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/allmydata-tahoe-0.8.0.tar.gz
Unpack the tarball and cd into the top-level directory.
Run make check-deps which verifies that all of the dependencies listed above are installed.
Run make to build Tahoe and some included libraries and 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). This executable can configure and launch your node.
Now you have the Tahoe source code installed and are ready to use it to form a decentralized filesystem. See running.html for instructions.