Install

FUSE

Linux

sudo apt-get install fuse

macOS

Download and install from https://osxfuse.github.io/

Install Node.js from https://nodejs.org/.

OPTIONAL! You do not need to install IPFS at all because ipfs-fuse comes bundled with a JS IPFS that will run by default.

ipfs-fuse also works with both go-ipfs and js-ipfs daemons:

Install and run the js-ipfs daemon:

npm install ipfs
jsipfs daemon

Note: to connect to a JS daemon, you must pass the API multiaddr to ipfs-fuse when starting. e.g. --api-addr=/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/5002

Install and run the go-ipfs daemon by downloading from https://ipfs.io/.

ipfs daemon

npm install --global ipfs-fuse

You need Python 2 to install, so you might need to tell gyp the path to Python2. For me it looked like this:

npm_config_python=/usr/local/opt/python2/bin/python2 npm i -g ipfs-fuse

Clone the project and install project dependencies:

npm install

You need Python 2 to install, so you might need to tell gyp the path to Python2. For me it looked like this:

npm_config_python=/usr/local/opt/python2/bin/python2 npm i