tahoe-lafs 1.14.0

using OS packages

Pre-packaged versions are available for several operating systems:

• Debian and Ubuntu users can apt-get install tahoe-lafs

• NixOS, NetBSD (pkgsrc), ArchLinux, Slackware, and Gentoo have packages available, see OSPackages for details

• Mac and Windows installers are in development.

via pip

If you don’t use an OS package, you’ll need Python 2.7 and pip. You may also need a C compiler, and the development headers for python, libffi, and OpenSSL. On a Debian-like system, use apt-get install build-essential python-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev python-virtualenv. On Windows, see docs/windows.rst.

Then, to install the most recent release, just run:

• pip install tahoe-lafs

from source

To install from source (either so you can hack on it, or just to run pre-release code), you should create a virtualenv and install into that:

• git clone https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs.git

• cd tahoe-lafs

• virtualenv --python=python2.7 venv

• venv/bin/pip install --upgrade setuptools

• venv/bin/pip install --editable .

• venv/bin/tahoe --version

To run the unit test suite:

• tox

You can pass arguments to trial with an environment variable. For example, you can run the test suite on multiple cores to speed it up:

• TAHOE_LAFS_TRIAL_ARGS="-j4" tox

For more detailed instructions, read docs/INSTALL.rst .

Once tahoe --version works, see docs/running.rst to learn how to set up your first Tahoe-LAFS node.