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Arjuna Sky Kok
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Arjuna Sky Kok has experience more than 10 years in expressing himself as a software engineer. He has developed web applications using Symfony, Laravel, Ruby on Rails, and Django. He also has built mobile applications on top of Android and iOS platforms. Currently, he is researching Ethereum technology. Other than that, he teaches Android and iOS programming to students. He graduated from Bina Nusantara University with majors in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. He always strives to become a holistic person by enjoying leisure activities, such as dancing Salsa, learning French, and playing StarCraft 2. He lives quietly in the bustling city of Jakarta. In loving memory of my late brother, Hengdra Santoso (1979-2011).
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Installing the IPFS software and its library

At the time of writing, there are only two IPFS implementations: go-ipfs (written in the Go language) and js-ipfs (written in JavaScript). There is no IPFS implementation written in Python as of yet. The Go implementation is the more popular one, so we will use that.

Go to, https://dist.ipfs.io/#go-ipfs, and download the software for your platform. For Ubuntu Linux, the file is named go-ipfs_v0.4.18_linux-amd64.tar.gz.

Extract this using the following command line:

$ tar xvfz go-ipfs_v0.4.18_linux-amd64.tar.gz

Then, install the binary using the following command:

$ cd go-ipfs
$ sudo ./install.sh

This step is optional. Here, we export the IPFS_PATH environment variable to our shell:

$ export IPFS_PATH=/path/to/ipfsrepo

This is where the ipfs stores the files. You can store this statement in ~/.bashrc. By default (without this environment...

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