Please add requested edits to "read-only" pages (e.g. wiki:WikiStart and wiki:Installation) here, and then ping someone on #tahoe-lafs to apply them.

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Download Tahoe-LAFS

The current version is v1.10.0.

Run this release from source.

(Note: running Tahoe-LAFS from source does not require system-wide installation nor root privileges.)

Or

Install one of the OS packages below. These packages may be for an earlier release.

Ubuntu lucid, oneiric, precise, quantal

Official Packages Buildbot

# apt-get install tahoe-lafs

Debian sid (unstable), wheezy (testing)

Official Packages Buildbot

# apt-get install tahoe-lafs

Slackware 14.0, 13.37, 13.1, 13.0

SlackBuilds.Org Repository Slackware64 Buildbots: 14.0 -current

NixOS

Buildbot

# nix-env -i tahoe-lafs

Arch Linux

Arch Linux User Repository

# yaourt -S tahoe-lafs 

NetBSD

Official Packages Buildbot

# pkg_add tahoe-lafs

After installing an OS package, run tahoe --version to verify that the executable tool prints out the right version number after "allmydata-tahoe:".

Now you are ready to deploy a decentralized filesystem. The tahoe command can configure and launch your Tahoe-LAFS nodes. See running.rst for instructions on how to do that.

see also

Wiki pages for Tahoe-LAFS developers and packagers: wiki:OSPackages, wiki:Manual, wiki:Packaging, wiki:NewbieDeveloperSetup, wiki:CompileError, and wiki:FAQ