Install
Install IonFS for Windows, Mac and Linux
Windows
Prerequisites
7-Zip or other bzip2-compatible archive tool installed.
If 7-Zip is not installed in your path
, i.e. an error is returned when running the 7z
command, please enter the following to temporarily add it to your path
:
Create the following folders within your user's home directory. .ionfs
will be used to store the IonFS appsettings.json
file used for configuration. $env:localappdata\Ionburst
is the directory used to host the IonFS binary.
Download IonFS
Download the IonFS archive to the created Ionburst directory.
Extract archive
Extract the IonFS binary.
Complete installation
Move the template appsettings.json
to the .ionfs
directory.
Add the ionfs
executable path to your $PATH
.
Execute
Execute the IonFS binary to check it has installed correctly.
Mac
Prerequisites
bzip2 compatible archive tool installed. By default, bzip2
should be installed.
Download ionfs archive (and sig)
Download the IonFS archive to the current directory. Downloading the file signature is optional.
Check signature (optional)
Use minisign
to verify the IonFS archive.
Extract archive
Extract the IonFS binary.
Complete installation
Create an .ionfs
directory within the home directory of your user. Move the appsettings.json file used for configuration to this directory, and move the ionfs
binary to a directory within your user's $PATH
.
Note, if brew
is not installed, then the command to move ionfs
may fail. If this occurs, use sudo mv ionfs /usr/local/bin
and enter your password when prompted.
Execute the IonFS binary to check it has installed correctly.
Linux (Centos/Fedora)
Install Prerequisites
Install the pre-requisite tools.
Download ionfs archive (and sig)
Download the IonFS archive to the current directory. Downloading the file signature is optional.
Check signature (optional)
Use minisign
to verify the IonFS archive.
Extract archive
Extract the IonFS binary.
Complete installation
Create an .ionfs
directory within the home directory of your user. Move the appsettings.json file used for configuration to this directory, and move the ionfs
binary to a directory within your user's $PATH
.
Execute
Execute the IonFS binary to check it has installed correctly.
Linux (Ubuntu/Debian)
Install Prerequisites
Install the pre-requisite tools.
Download ionfs archive (and sig)
Download the IonFS archive to the current directory. Downloading the file signature is optional.
Check signature (optional)
Use minisign
to verify the IonFS archive.
Extract archive
Extract the IonFS binary.
Complete installation
Create an .ionfs
directory within the home directory of your user. Move the appsettings.json file used for configuration to this directory, and move the ionfs
binary to a directory within your user's $PATH
.
Execute
Execute the IonFS binary to check it has installed correctly.