Installation Guide

• Installing IPFS on Windows

  1. Download IPFS CLI:

     • Visit the Go-IPFS Releases page.

     • Download the latest version for Windows (go-ipfs_vX.XX.X_windows-amd64.zip).

     • Extract the ZIP file to a directory (e.g., C:\ipfs).

  2. Add IPFS to PATH:

     • Open Environment Variables and add the extracted IPFS folder (containing ipfs.exe) to the Path variable.

     • Open a new terminal and run:

       ipfs --version

       If it returns the version number, the installation was successful.

  3. Initialize IPFS:

     ipfs init

  4. Start the IPFS Daemon:

     ipfs daemon

  Installing IPFS on Linux

  1. Download the IPFS binary:

     wget https://dist.ipfs.io/go-ipfs/v0.40.0/go-ipfs_v0.40.0_linux-amd64.tar.gz

  2. Extract and install IPFS:

     tar -xvzf go-ipfs_v0.40.0_linux-amd64.tar.gz
     cd go-ipfs
     sudo bash install.sh

  3. Verify the installation:

     ipfs --version

  4. Initialize IPFS:

     ipfs init

  5. Start the IPFS daemon:

     ipfs daemon

  Installing IPFS on macOS

  1. Install IPFS using Homebrew:

     brew install ipfs

  2. Initialize IPFS:

     ipfs init

  3. Start the IPFS daemon:

     ipfs daemon