Closed MichaelJCole closed 11 months ago
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Thanks for submitting this issue @MichaelJCole the step that fails for you is the ui for ipfs-desktop
. ipfs-desktop
in itself is a simple container that makes sure kubo and webui can work together in a standalone fashion and has access to other os-specfic features like tray and contextual integrations.
There are multiple ways to access webui:
All of these instances of webui are the same but shipped slightly differently. The file you're seeing being downloaded is the latest release of webui, i.e. v4.1.1 you can match the content identifiers (CID) for both to be bafybeiamycmd52xvg6k3nzr6z3n33de6a2teyhquhj4kspdtnvetnkrfim
I am not 100% sure if that download actually succeeded, can you clean your local build and try again? If you don't have the webui you can reach kubo's built in webui and check the status of your node.
Let me know if you need more support.
Hi @whizzzkid thanks for taking the time. I wrote this up in a PR for the readme.
Describe the bug Does not build from source.
To Reproduce Follow instructions from home page
Expected behavior Build and install from source
Additional context
It does not build and appears to be downloading a file unexpectedly from IPFS, which is weird because it didn't ask permission to download some unknown data into the build process.
First impressions: It makes me think either the codebase is 1) proprietary 2) malicious or 3) trying to be clever but not working. It's kind of weird this data isn't checked into github, or not part of ipfs-desktop's initialization process.
Anyways, here is the log output...
I ran it again and didn't get an error.
But
npm start
loads to white screen and thess error in the terminal:And lastly, just a couple warnings in the electron console (no errors):
Is there a missing step?