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Building Tahoe-LAFS on Linux
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Tahoe-LAFS has made packages available for installing on many linux and BSD distributions.
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Debian and Ubuntu users can use ``apt-get install tahoe-lafs``.
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If you are working on a Linux distribution which does not have Tahoe-LAFS or are looking to hack on the source code, you can build Tahoe-LAFS yourself:
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Prerequisites
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=============
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Make sure the following are installed:
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* **Python 3's latest version**: Check for the version by running ``python --version``.
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* **pip**: Most python installations already include ``pip``. However, if your installation does not, see `pip installation <https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/>`_.
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* **virtualenv**: Use ``pip`` to install virtualenv::
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pip install --user virtualenv
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* **C compiler and libraries**:
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* ``python-dev``: Python development headers.
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* ``libffi-dev``: Foreign Functions Interface library.
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* ``libssl-dev``: SSL library, Tahoe-LAFS needs OpenSSL version 1.1.1c or greater.
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.. note::
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If you are working on Debian or Ubuntu, you can install the necessary libraries using ``apt-get``::
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apt-get install python-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev
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On an RPM-based system such as Fedora, you can install the necessary libraries using ``yum`` or ``rpm``. However, the packages may be named differently.
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Install the Latest Tahoe-LAFS Release
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If you are looking to hack on the source code or run pre-release code, we recommend you install Tahoe-LAFS directly from source by creating a ``virtualenv`` instance:
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1. Clone the Tahoe-LAFS repository::
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git clone https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs.git
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2. Move into the tahoe-lafs directory::
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cd tahoe-lafs
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3. Create a fresh virtualenv for your Tahoe-LAFS install::
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virtualenv venv
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.. note::
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venv is the name of the virtual environment in this example. Use any name for your environment.
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4. Upgrade ``pip`` and ``setuptools`` on the newly created virtual environment::
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venv/bin/pip install -U pip setuptools
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5. If you'd like to modify the Tahoe source code, you need to install Tahoe-LAFS with the ``--editable`` flag with the ``test`` extra::
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venv/bin/pip install --editable .[test]
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.. note::
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Tahoe-LAFS provides extra functionality when requested explicitly at installation using the "extras" feature of setuptools. To learn more about the extras which Tahoe supports, see Tahoe extras.
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6. Verify installation by checking for the version::
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venv/bin/tahoe --version
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If you do not want to use the full path, i.e., ``venv/bin/tahoe`` everytime you want to run tahoe, you can activate the ``virtualenv``::
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. venv/bin/activate
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This will generate a subshell with a ``$PATH`` that includes the ``venv/bin/`` directory.
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