IPFS is a global, versioned, peer-to-peer filesystem. It combines good ideas from Git, BitTorrent, Kademlia, SFS, and the Web. It is like a single bittorrent swarm, exchanging git objects. IPFS provides an interface as simple as the HTTP web, but with permanence built in. You can also mount the world at /ipfs.

For more info about IPFS itself, see: https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs and https://github.com/ipfs/kubo

For Fedora and 64bit only.

(1) First enable the COPR repository

sudo dnf install -y dnf-plugins-core distribution-gpg-keys
sudo dnf copr enable taw/ipfs

(2) Then install IPFS (of the Kubo variety) …

sudo dnf install -y kubo --refresh

(3) Join the ipfs group so you have access to ipfs, the application

Note, I, personally, create a user ipfsuser on my servers and give permission only to that user to run IPFS. And I run kubo (ipfs) as a systemd service. (In that case, replace $USER with ipfsuser.) Adapt these generic instructions to match your usage model.

sudo usermod -a -G ipfs $USER
newgrp -
getent group ipfs
groups

# if you do not see ipfs as one of your groups, force the relogin.
# if, for whatever reason, 'newgrp -' doesn't do what it is suppose to do
sudo su -l $USER
getent group ipfs
groups

rpm -ql kubo
ls -lh /usr/bin/ipfs

• Browse to https://docs.ipfs.tech and https://ipfs.io/ and read the docs.

• The Fedora RPM build github repo: https://github.com/taw00/ipfs-rpm
• The upstream Kubo project: https://github.com/ipfs/kubo
• The upstream IPFS project: https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs

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