How To Install tahoe-lafs on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tahoe-lafs on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is tahoe-lafs
tahoe-lafs is:
Tahoe, the Least Authority File Store, is a distributed filesystem that features high reliability, strong security properties, and a fine-grained sharing model. Files are encrypted, signed, erasure-coded, then distributed over multiple servers, such that any (configurable) subset of the servers will be sufficient to recover the data. The default 3-of-10 configuration tolerates up to 7 server failures before data becomes unrecoverable.
Tahoe offers “provider-independent security”: the confidentiality and integrity of your data do not depend upon the behavior of the servers. The use of erasure-coding means that reliability and availability depend only upon a subset of the servers.
Tahoe files are accessed through a RESTful web API, a human-oriented web server interface, and CLI tools.
There are three methods to install tahoe-lafs on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install tahoe-lafs Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tahoe-lafs using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tahoe-lafs
Install tahoe-lafs Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tahoe-lafs using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tahoe-lafs
Install tahoe-lafs Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install tahoe-lafs using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tahoe-lafs
How To Uninstall tahoe-lafs on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the tahoe-lafs package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tahoe-lafs
Uninstall tahoe-lafs And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tahoe-lafs and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tahoe-lafs
Remove tahoe-lafs Configurations and Data
To remove tahoe-lafs configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tahoe-lafs
Remove tahoe-lafs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tahoe-lafs configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tahoe-lafs
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tahoe-lafs package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
