November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
13h 21m
English
We will start by installing IPFS locally on our machine, which will give us the tools required to upload and view content on the IPFS network. Installation processes will vary depending on your machine's architecture—full instructions can be found at https://ipfs.io/docs/install/.
Once IPFS has been installed, we can initialize our node as follows:
ipfs init
Once this has completed correctly, the following output will displayed:
initializing ipfs node at /Users/jbenet/.go-ipfs generating 2048-bit RSA keypair...done peer identity: Qmcpo2iLBikrdf1d6QU6vXuNb6P7hwrbNPW9kLAH8eG67z to get started, enter: ipfs cat /ipfs/QmS4ustL54uo8FzR9455qaxZwuMiUhyvMcX9Ba8nUH4uVv/readme
Run the suggested ipfs cat command to read a welcome file: ...
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