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The Raspberry Pi is a product that many electronic DIY enthusiasts are probably very familiar with.
This palm-sized integrated circuit board has common hardware interfaces such as USB, Ethernet, and GPIO pins. It is easy to operate, user-friendly, and portable, capable of booting the system with just an SD card to achieve many functions.
More importantly, it is inexpensive, which not only makes it popular among individual enthusiasts but also highly regarded by many companies that use it as a control platform for various products.
It can be said that the Raspberry Pi is quite popular and widely used among embedded devices.
So, can IPFS intersect with Raspberry Pi? Absolutely.
When we talk about IPFS, we usually assume that the setup and deployment are done on a PC. In fact, the IPFS system can also be installed on a Raspberry Pi.
Today, I will introduce the process of installing IPFS on Raspberry Pi. This article is sourced from the internet, so the “I” and “we” mentioned in the steps below refer to the original author of the text.
In the following operations, I used the Raspbian Buster Lite (CLI) system for installation. Before starting the installation, you also need to download Golang. Once Raspbian is installed and running, the following steps are quite simple.
First, we need to install Go on the Raspberry Pi. Type the following command in the Raspberry Pi’s terminal command line tool:
Sudo apt update sudo apt install golang
After executing the command, the system will start downloading Golang. Once the download is complete, we need to set the GOPATH. To do this, we can create a “go” directory under the $HOME directory and set this “go” directory as the GOPATH. This operation can be completed with the following commands:
Cd ~/ mkdir go echo ‘export GOPATH=$HOME/go’ >> ~/.profile echo ‘PATH=”$HOME/go/bin:$PATH”‘ >> ~/.profile source ~/.profile
Next, let’s check if Git is installed on the Raspberry Pi by executing the following command:
Again, confirm the installation of Go and Git by executing the following commands:
If the above commands return the version numbers of Go and Git, it proves that we have successfully installed them. Now, we have initially completed the installation of the necessary software packages.
Next, we will start installing IPFS.
The IPFS team has previously published a document on how to install IPFS on Raspberry Pi. However, I do not recommend following the steps in that document. The steps below have been tested by me and will yield better results.
The Raspberry Pi is an ARM device, and ARM devices may have unstable network connections, so we need to choose a stable source for downloading the IPFS source code. I recommend using the “ipfs-rpi repo,” which was created by “claudiobizzotto.”
Alright, let’s officially start the installation.
First, clone the repo and change the directory:
Cd ~/ git clone https://github.com/claudiobizzotto/ipfs-rpi.git cd ipfs-rpi
Next, run the script to install IPFS:
After running this command, IPFS will be installed, it’s that simple. To confirm whether we have correctly installed IPFS, let’s execute the following command to check the IPFS version number.
If the command returns a version number, it proves that we have indeed installed it successfully. Next, we will install IPFS-Cluster. I recommend starting from the source code. First, clone the ipfs-cluster repo and change the directory:
Cd ~/ git clone https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-cluster.git cd ipfs-cluster
Now we need to run two scripts:
Go install ./cmd/ipfs-cluster-service go install ./cmd/ipfs-cluster-ctl
These two scripts will take some time to run. After both scripts have finished, let’s check their versions by executing the following commands:
Ipfs-cluster-service version ipfs-cluster-ctl version
Alright, now we have installed IPFS on the Raspberry Pi and set it up as an IPFS node.
https://blocking.net/12873/how-to-install-ipfs-and-ipfs-clusters-on-raspberry-pi/
