Can you make an interim release?

[madhephaestus]

I read about the project and was disappointed that there are no binary builds available for installing a vault on Ubuntu. Is the network even online yet to connect to yet?

[Viv-Rajkumar]

Hey,

Cheers for checking into the MaidSafe. MaidSafe-Drive is the submodule of the system that provides a VFS to access your data from the network. The vault client you mentioned comes from the Vault submodule which you can also find under our github repositories.

We currently do not provide binary builds of vault/other sub modules as we are still internally testing the network(currently you can build the project yourself tho from source). A set of examples and tutorials of the usage of the system is soon to follow with the MaidSafe-Examples using the API project. I'd recommend you subscribe to the mailing list to be aware of when these get released.

You can find the build instructions for the entire system at https://github.com/maidsafe/MaidSafe/wiki/Build-Instructions

In the mailing list, the procedure for setting up a test network is listed by Qi which can be found at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/maidsafe-development/gEnt_azBucI/dm-FWjUGJVQJ

That should help you get started currently and being subscribed to the mailing list should help a bit to keep up with the info when binaries/examples get released exposing the features of the platform which should hopefully be coming soon as well.

[madhephaestus]

I keep coming back to this project, pulling the latest, and building. I have yet to get a successful build. A Binary .deb would be good, and a maintained ppa would be ideal.

Ubuntu Studio 14.04

[MaidSafe-Travis]

I did this as a test during testnet1

wget -O - http://dash.maidsafe.net/repos/gpg.key| sudo apt-key add -

[replace trusty here with your version - and ubuntu with debian if needed]
sudo echo "deb http://dash.maidsafe.net/repos/apt/ubuntu trusty main" >>
/etc/apt/sources.list

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install maidsafe-dev maidsafe-farmer etc.

This is highly developed at speed codebase right now so forgive any issues.
The next branches are the most stable, we will tag and get master up to
date soon. Qa are setting up a next -> testnet -> tag -> master workflow
just now

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Kevin Harrington [email protected]
wrote:

I keep coming back to this project, pulling the latest, and building. I
have yet to get a successful build. A Binary .deb would be good, and a
maintained ppa would be ideal.

Ubuntu Studio 14.04

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[madhephaestus]

Awesome, thanks!

[madhephaestus]

This would be an excellent Wiki page for newcomers, fyi.

[madhephaestus]

So when i run this on Ubuntu Studio Trusty I get the following error:

sudo apt-get install maidsafe-dev maidsafe-farmer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
maidsafe-dev is already the newest version.
maidsafe-farmer is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libllvm3.4:i386 linux-headers-3.13.0-24 linux-headers-3.13.0-24-lowlatency
linux-image-3.13.0-24-lowlatency
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 22 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up maidsafe-farmer (0.1.171-1) ...
vault manager executable is missing in /opt/maidsafe/vault
dpkg: error processing package maidsafe-farmer (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
maidsafe-farmer
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Here is the kernel:
$ uname -a
Linux okTower 3.13.0-43-lowlatency #72-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 8 20:00:12 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[dirvine]

"vault manager executable is missing in /opt/maidsafe/vault"

Seems like I need to recreate this, can you wait a wee while, I am currently working out of branch and in a load of code sorting out some re-entrant code issues which are using a paradigm I am not used to so may take me a wee while. The installers are going thought Qa and getting formalised to the official versions will be much better. I tend to try these things out for myself so that is where this came from. I don't even remember the commit it was based on. I am sure the Qa team will do a much better well thought out job.

[madhephaestus]

The file is there however:

$ ls -al /opt/maidsafe/vault
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 111666380 Aug 20 18:33 /opt/maidsafe/vault

[madhephaestus]

No rush on my account, i am just trying to understand the system and give detailed feedback. Once it builds I am interested in contributing as a developer as well (check my profile page for credentials). Also, if i am submitting issues in the wrong location, just let me know.

[dirvine]

No worries here is fine. We underwent a ton of upgrading and improvements in this testnet, nearly there now, still to handle public name registration and the public drive and messaging (not that much really) and it's done. This may also include some of the newer nfs API components. So testnet3 will be much wider open to play around in. Feel free to build from source as well though, no need to wait. Checked your repo's good man physical computing is my next thing to include here, desk full of bits (recently got memory wire to replace solenoids) and I cannot wait, but time is hell just now. I am gonna take a day of when testnet2 is done.