From 1db2606ebbb1f7c4a82c246a39a76a5db805cff3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakob Unterwurzacher Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2018 13:09:33 +0100 Subject: quickstart: mention deb + homebrew packages https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/issues/202 --- docs/quickstart.md | 30 +++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/quickstart.md b/docs/quickstart.md index 8bfef19..f625386 100644 --- a/docs/quickstart.md +++ b/docs/quickstart.md @@ -4,30 +4,38 @@ Quickstart Download or Compile gocryptfs ----------------------------- -If you are running Fedora or a Debian-based Linux distribution like Ubuntu, -chances are that the precompiled binaries will work on your system. -Download the corresponding binary for your system from the -[github releases page](https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/releases) and -extract the archive into `~/bin`. +Precompiled binaries that work on **all** x86_64 Linux systems are +available for download from the +[github releases page](https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/releases). -If you want or need to compile from source, see the [Compile](compile.md) page for +On Debian, gocryptfs is available as +[a deb package](https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=gocryptfs&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all): + + $ apt install gocryptfs + +On Mac OS X, gocryptfs is available as a +[Homebrew formula](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/gocryptfs.rb): + + $ brew install gocryptfs + +If you want to compile from source, see the [Compile](compile.md) page for instructions. -Once you have gocrypts in `~/bin`, running +Once you have gocrypts installed, running - $ ~/bin/gocryptfs -version + $ gocryptfs -version should print a version string like this: - gocryptfs v0.x; on-disk format 2 + gocryptfs v1.4.3; go-fuse v20170619-28-g19acbd2; 2018-02-01 go1.9.2 Create and Mount Filesystem --------------------------- $ mkdir cipher plain - $ ~/bin/gocryptfs -init cipher + $ gocryptfs -init cipher [...] - $ ~/bin/gocryptfs cipher plain + $ gocryptfs cipher plain [...] You should now have a working gocryptfs that is stored in `cipher` and mounted to `plain`. -- cgit v1.2.3