/ipfs-rpi

A bare bones IPFS installer for the Raspberry Pi.

Primary LanguageShell

IPFS RPi

A bare bones IPFS installer for the Raspberry Pi.

Installation

Log in to your Raspberry Pi as the default user (pi). From any local directory, clone or download this repo, cd into it and run the installer:

$ ./install

Notes

  • Make sure your SD card's size is 16 GB or more
  • You need to be logged in as pi in order to correctly run the installer. Also, the pi user needs root privileges to run the installer (it does by default)
  • The IPFS user directory will be created at /home/pi/.ipfs
  • Go's version will default to 1.6.3 (latest version as of this writing)

Tested on:

Raspberry Pi version:

  • RPi 0
  • RPi 1
  • RPi 2
  • RPi 3

SD card size:

  • 8 GB
  • 16 GB
  • 32 GB
  • 64 GB

How to contribute

For bug reports, open a new issue. For code patches, open a pull request against the development branch.