[tahoe-dev] Newbie installation notes

[Michael Rogers]

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Hi all,

Here are a few notes I made while trying out version 1.8.2 of
Tahoe-LAFS. I thought a newbie's perspective on the setup process
might be useful. I apologise if any of these are out of date, they're
from last September.

1. On Ubuntu, 'python setup.py build' fails unless the python-dev
package is installed.

2. quickstart.rst says "verify that the executable tool prints out the
right version number", but what's the right number? It prints several.

3. running.rst recommends connecting to the public test grid, but the
TestGrid wiki page says there's no longer a public gateway. I wasn't
sure whether I needed a gateway (apparently not?).

4. The client's welcome page has scary red warning about not being
connected to a helper. I wasn't sure whether I needed a helper
(apparently not?).

5. There weren't enough servers in the test grid to upload a file, so
I had to change shares.happy to 4.

6. Download URIs are too long to paste into emails.

7. I couldn't find a nice way to shut down the client.

8. After restarting the client, I couldn't find the URI of the file I
uploaded in the first session.

9. I want a pony.

These are all minor points but I thought I'd better share them since
that's what I advise other people to do. :-)

Cheers,
Michael
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