Install InterPlanetary File System (IPFS)

InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a peer-peer Distributed file system allow nodes to join and share files.

https://ipfs.io

To install IPFS, download latest version of IPFS for your Operating System from

https://dist.ipfs.io/#go-ipfs

For Ubuntu/Linux

cd /usr/loca/src
wget https://dist.ipfs.io/go-ipfs/v0.4.18/go-ipfs_v0.4.18_linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar xvf go-ipfs_v0.4.18_linux-amd64.tar.gz
cd go-ipfs
./install.sh

Once installed, initialize IPFS server with command

ipfs init --profile server

Start ipfs server with

ipfs daemon

You can see all peers connected to your server with command

ipfs swarm peers

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