I won’t show a screenshot of all the questions, but simply suggest that you take all of the defaults, with the exception of assigning a password for the web administration interface. All of the questions have reasonable default values suggested. It will ask you a lot of questions about how to set up the BitTorrent Sync daemon. Unlike a lot of the installers you’ve encountered so far in this series, this one’s pretty chatty. Now you can update apt-get’s list of available packages to take the new repository into account and install BitTorrent Sync the same as any other software package in this series. Sudo gpg -armor -export 6BF18B15 | sudo apt-key add. Import the repository’s signing key with the following commands: sudo gpg -keyserver -recv-keys 6BF18B15 This time, the key is available from a public key server, so the commands are going to be quite different. deb wheezy main contrib non-freeĬlose and save the file (ctrl-x, y, enter).Īs with the Webmin installation, you’ll need to import the signing key used by the new repository before you can use apt-get to install things from it. sudo nano /etc/apt//btsync.listĪdd the following two lines to the file. Name the file something that lets others know what package it was created to support. This file must be in the /etc/apt/ folder, and must have the extension. I did.Ĭreate a new file to contain the BitTorrent Sync repository information. You can go back and move the Webmin repository information into its own file as well while you’re tidying up. This is the preferred way to keep everything separate and organized so you don’t lose track of why each entry was added to the main sources.list file. Rather than editing the main sources.list file, this time we’re going to create a separate file to contain just the sources used by BitTorrent Sync. Edit apt-get’s list of sources to add the BitTorrent Sync repository. We’ve run into this kind of problem before, when we installed Webmin in Part 4. There is an apt-get package available for BitTorrent sync, but it’s not listed on the well-known public repositories yet. This post is going to be pretty short because, to be honest, the installation is dead simple. What you need is a node in your network that’s always on. You may want to share files between work and home, but by the time you get to work, your home computer will have fallen asleep and vice versa. The trouble is that in order for a file to travel from one computer to another, they both have to be up and running at the same time so that they can talk to each other. If you put something in a sync folder on one computer, it shows up in the sync folder on all of the other computers. Think of it as a peer-to-peer network where all of the peers belong to you (Your desktop, laptop, tablet, phone, etc). It’s a file synchronization application based on the BitTorrent protocol. The same people that brought you BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer file sharing application, have created BitTorrent Sync. Or maybe you’re just looking for yet another thing for your Raspberry Pi to do. Perhaps you’re uncomfortable with that, even if they’ve promised that they won’t peek at it. One thing they all have in common is that a copy of your stuff is on someone else’s system. You have Microsoft’s Sky OneDrive, Google Drive, DropBox, and SpiderOak just to name a few. There are plenty of cloud sync solutions out there. If you don’t find the license.bin file, then you should be all set. Go look for it as instructed in the module. At the time of this update, the btsync coming from the Jessie repository still set up a license for me, so I still had to expire it manually. This also means you don’t need to worry about setting up pro features accidentally. It may no longer necessary to manually expire your license, as newer installations no longer opt you into the pro trial by default. Wheezy will still work, but I would expect Jessie to be more up to date. Updates: Change “wheezy” to “jessie” when setting up the source list. If you have a Pluralsight subscription, please consider watching it. Self-promotion: I’ve recorded this series as a screencast for Pluralsight: This article is kept for historical reference, but should be considered out of date. Please refer to the new index for updated articles and ordering. A new version of this series has been published.
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