INSTALLING TAHOE

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. For more details and for alternative installation procedures, please see install-details.html.

DEPENDENCIES

Prior to installing Tahoe the following must be installed:

  1. gcc including g++ -- the Cygwin version of gcc works for Cygwin and for Windows
  2. GNU make
  3. Python including development headers i.e. "Python.h"
  4. zope.interface -- not the entire Zope package, merely the much smaller zope.interface component
  5. Twisted -- from the Twisted "sumo" source tarball
  6. OpenSSL, including development headers
  7. PyOpenSSL
  8. Crypto++, including development headers
  9. pywin32 -- required only for Windows -- not required for Cygwin

GET THE SOURCE CODE

Tarballs of the source code are available at: 

http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/

INSTALL

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

Now you have the Tahoe source code installed and are ready to use it to form a decentralized filesystem. See running.html for instructions.