At this time, precompiled packages are available for Debian-like systems, using recent releases of Debian or Ubuntu.

To install debian packages for edgy, feisty, or etch from our ​APT repository, add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list, replacing the word $DIST with edgy, feisty, or etch as appropriate. (If you are running Debian lenny, use the etch packages.)

deb http://allmydata.org/debian/  $DIST  main tahoe
deb-src http://allmydata.org/debian/  $DIST  main tahoe

Then update and install the allmydata-tahoe package. apt-get will automatically acquire a foolscap .deb package from the same location in order to satisfy its dependencies. These packages are generated each time the code is changed, and represent the most up-to-date (read "unstable") version available. The usual warnings about no guarantees apply: it might cause your computer to catch fire, might steal your dog, etc.

After installing see the ​docs/running.html for how to use it.

There are no pre-built packages available for dapper or sarge, as these releases are too old to provide the necessary support packages (python-central, setuptools, etc). You can probably still install from source on these releases, however.

Problems ¶

Edgy ¶

While the tahoe package on edgy will install, it appears that the version of Nevow (0.7.0) which shipped with edgy is broken (ubuntu bug ​#61423), preventing the tahoe node's webserver from running. The symptom is an exception at node startup that looks like this:

  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/formless/annotate.py", line 17, in ?
     from nevow.compy import Interface, MetaInterface
exceptions.ImportError: cannot import name MetaInterface

We do not yet know of a solid workaround for this. One suggestion is to comment out the "from allmydata.webish import WebishServer?" line from allmydata/client.py and not use the 'webport' feature. Another is to modify formless/annotate.py and try to fix that import problem. A third is to find a backport of a newer version of nevow.